Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

All thoughts all passions all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.

I was just kind of doing the math.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!