A small unkindness is a great offence.

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.

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!

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.

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced

When you learn to see the beauty in emptiness, your life will become more abundant.

Being wise does not necessarily make you mature.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

I am always fascinated by India.

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.