All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.