A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable.

The wages of sin-is death.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

I can never do nothing in this house!

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.