“I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.”

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

He that has patience may compass anything.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

To laugh is proper to man.

Of a young hermit, an old devil.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

A habit does not a monk make.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare.

In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.

Nothing permanent grows from comfort.