How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it.

Let it be then let it go.

Personally, I love Toronto.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.