I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

Worship changes the worshiper into the image of One worshiped

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.