Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

The greatest writers have persistence.

We belong to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.

Compliment but do not covet.

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.