When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

Will I see you again?”I turned to him and I shrugged. “If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will.

I think women are excellent social critics.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.