The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

God's grace is seed of salvation via faith in Jesus Christ.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

I believe there is a champion in all of us.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.