Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

I understand the dignity that comes from work and caring for one's family.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.