Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

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.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.