Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.