We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.