Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.

Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.

Love is the color of peace.

This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over.

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.