Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

a story is ready when it falls from your face

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

People come around, oh Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before, I don't know who they are.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.