“It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

To sing is to pray twice.

He that is jealous is not in love.

With a book and a pen, the world can change.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.