The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

[W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start

Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

Personally I prefer Gospel music.

It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.

Nobody acts purely selfishly.