Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

receive a black eye over this.

Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms Of France and England, whose very shores look pale With envy of each other's happiness, May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,— This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

People in power need the power of prayer.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell Into this world of ours?

Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night.

"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

I'm from Missouri; you must show me.

America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.