I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.
Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun. . . . But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.