How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint?

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.

You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the character.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.