Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

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.

It's impossible to know everything about everything but the real pleasure lies in knowing something about everything

I tend to scare myself.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.