The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.
There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.