Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

We are transformed by every sacred-experience.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Your clothes should be as important as your skin.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.