Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.
The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.
Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.
As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.