The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

When the tough get going, the going gets easier.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Makin' it happen with Jesus! The good life.

don’t order me around like that unless it involves a safe word and a couple of interesting toys.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

I know what it’s like to miss someone. To feel like you’re just…wandering around, lost.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.