To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

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.

Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?

The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

I'm four months along, but I feel like I'm carrying the baby in my a--, it's so big.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out.