The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

Take a step of faith. And leave fate to the faithful God.

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.