Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Old friends are best.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved.

I love religion but I don't need it for votes.

You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

All things are full of God.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.