Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.