God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

Our best people don't go into politics.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.