The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.