My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

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.

The length of our lives are far shorter then we realise and half of the time when we become aware of such truth, we have lived most of it as someone else.

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

We never talked to each other in my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.