The best life is that which makes the best of life.
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.
I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.
For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.