The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
The enlightened ruler is heedful and the good general full of caution.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.
Get correct views of life and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly to do good and when summoned away to leave without regret.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Thunder is good thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Like the old soldier of the ballad I now close my military career and just fade away an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and all was light!
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions but an immediate insight self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
God's first creature which was light.
Worry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
And God said 'Let there be light' and there was light but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.