Mark Twain Aphorism Quotes & Sayings

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. — Gerald Stanley Lee

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. — T.D. Jakes

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. — Thomas Wolfe

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me. — Kaskade

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. — Molly Ringwald

Great men are almost always bad men. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814] — Thomas Jefferson