A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

The best way for you to grow is to sack yourself.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

We are a nation within a nation.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.