Occupied people are not unhappy people.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Godliness is practical religion.

The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

I'm trusting everyone around me who seems to be confident and happy with what we're up to.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.