Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
God warns before he wounds.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . . Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
. . . frugality makes a poor man rich.
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.