“Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.”

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?

We give each other a smile with a future in it.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.