"The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right."

-- Horace Walpole

#Morning Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“The sum of a million facts is not the truth.”

Source : William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”
“What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.”
“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”
“There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.”
“You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.”
“I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.”
“We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.”
“People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.”

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