Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

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.

Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart.

I'm a cactus but I will only offer you flowers.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants.

All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?