Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

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.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.