Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. -Maria Mitchell.

The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.

For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church of the Reformation to missions during the Reformation period (1517-1650). Having themselves been emancipated from the superstitions and slavery of a false doctrine and a harsh ecclesiastical government, it would be thought most natural that the Reformers and those who followed them should promptly turn their attention to spreading these glad tidings among non-Christian peoples; but here a strange anomaly is found in the fact that there had been hardly any period, in the entire history of the Christian Church, so destitute of any concerted effort to spread the gospel in heathen lands [as] just this period of the Reformation.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Handy Guide to Modern Science: 1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology. 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry. 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.