Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Deeds, not words.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.

Hatred is settled anger.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.