Jo Walton

It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.