If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

Everybody should have a librarian.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

My parents, and their interest in making the world a better place for more people inspired me.

For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.