“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.”

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

It’s always good to mix work with play.

Hunger is good discipline.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.