“The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.”

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.

Tell me everything. Write everything down. That way, we will be with each other all the time even if we’re not with each other at all.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.