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.

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

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.

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

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.

I will learn by screwing up.

We can adapt to changing circumstances with a resolved spirit.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.

Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.