I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

He who stops being better stops being good.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.