Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Of two Evils we take the less.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.