I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

He who stops being better stops being good.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

By picking him up again, i guess you're just lost, baby. Lost.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

There are fit men everywhere, so I'm working my way through them, one at a time!

I want to be the rock that floats.

Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.