Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

History after all is the true poetry.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.