To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing, " said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

Look upon yourself only with compassion.