Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Be the sun breaking through the clouds.

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

The only thing that's doing well in America is the stock market.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

The removal of Bill Cosby from his cultural pedestal seems pretty complete.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.