In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

I have no skeletons in my closet.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody.

When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.