“On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).”

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Plain as a pike-staff.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.

Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?

Evil tongues never want a whet.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.

My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I’m looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.

We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.