Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Haste is of the Devil.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Good better best. Never let it rest. Til your good is better and your better is best.

Catch then O catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies

Be ever engaged so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

The face is the mirror of the mind and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Good better best. Never let it rest. Til your good is better and your better is best. Good Afternoon.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

A friendship that can cease has never been real.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.