God has prohibited despair.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

That’s not Eire. Everyone always thinks that, but we’re not shamrocks and wee men. You should know the difference.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Jews ate the English nation to its bones.

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

My joy will be in serving.