Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice and falsehood passing from words into things.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together

The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy.

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.