it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

I never invite idiots to my house.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

Evil will Never win from Righteousness

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.

After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

A man's idee in a card game is war

Obviously, every game's big. It's lose or get yourself in a bad situation.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.