Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.