Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.