Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Old friends are best.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

A gallant man is above ill words.

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.