Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.