oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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.

Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble, she does just fine.

Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

If Patience is the Key of Success then Communication is the master key of it

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.