“I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.”

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

Conquered, we conquer.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

A man with courage has every blessing.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

It is best to know the worst at once.

I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

Desire is no light thing.

When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men.

So that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That’s the way you have to leave them.

We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause.

In their great numbers, most people have, up to now,

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.