A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

It's under my skin but out of my hands (Tears for Fears - Womain in Chains, 1992)

A hard drill makes an easy battle.

Misdirect ALL the time.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

No one, and nothing, will ever hurt you as long as I'm alive.