Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

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

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.