“None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.”

A good man’s life is all of a piece.

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

He that does not repent, sins again.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don’t line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There’s no time to think when you’re on the spot.

There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!