Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I take my sleep very, very important.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.