“Practice yourself what you preach.”

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man’s foundation.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.