Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.