It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

When trumpt sound today where wood you be! if you die today your JESUS has come! how could you give account of your life if JESUS meet you in your sinful life! repent now tomorrow might too late for you!

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

God has created the world in play.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.