Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.

Love will find you when you least expect it to

A sword held in vengeance only leads to grief.

The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.