He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of distinction out of sight, as we keep knives and razors out of the way of children; and if my hearers had not some other means of information, I think they would not know from me that there are such creatures as Arminians and Calvinists in the world. But we [would] talk a good deal about Christ.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Man knows more than he understands.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Engineer: a person who knows a great deal about very little and who goes along knowing more and more about less and less, until finally he knows practically everything about nothing.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

A friend is a second self.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

We can only change the world by changing men.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods But apt to take his temper from his dinner.

The drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.