A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

If I am in that position, you will see change because I have experience change as a Christian.

Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body.

Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.

I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school everybody hated me.

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.