A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

the more you know the less you want to do

A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.