swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

Dim light played on her face as she turned to wordless prayer, trusting that her Lord, Who saw her heart, knew what it was crying though she was unable to utter it.

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

Honor your father and mother even as you honor God for all three were partners in your creation.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.