To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.