When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint with much grievance.

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

Netflix is something I watch.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.