A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.