Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.

There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

Cherish every second you have. Hold the ones you love close to you. Sing, even when you don’t know the words to the song. Smile when the sun shines on your face. Dance in the rain.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.