It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.

Confident is a spirit of faith

If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.