“Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.”

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.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Truth is not private property.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.