No one is ever holy without suffering.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

O God, make me good, but not yet.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.