Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

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.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Always watch your attitude, never forget to express your gratitude.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.