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Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

All who have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute the members of their trade.

But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.

Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

The true Amphitryon.

By education most have been misled.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.