The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

cannot come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.