I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.