I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
Try to be of some use to others.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.