I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.…! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus.

I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

It's great to be young and insane.

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.