You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you, to be around you, to be influenced by you.