Criticism plugs the flow of God's blessing.

Damn it, she writes detective stories and in detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have.

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

The memory of a good deed lives.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.