Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.

The only problem is time.

Solitude is a greater treasure than wealth.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.