Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

When you are in God's will, you're never to late, always on time.

With or without payment, the work will be done.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.