Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

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.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.