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- Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. — Laurence Sterne
- No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. — Friedrich Schiller
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means. — Thomas Hooker
- So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. — Thomas Hooker
- Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? — Thomas Hooker