“Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty.”

“If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?”

“Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.”

“With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;”

“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”

Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking up? And if I were to crack up, what form would it take?

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”

“I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard”

“Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.”

“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.”

“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”

“Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”

“It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”

“The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction”

“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over.