It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

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.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Into each life some rain must fall.

My dad and uncles were among the 125, 000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.