An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers. . . layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.