God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading