True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.

Christ is made the sure foundation

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.