When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.