I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or no.

Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence they flow. He to whom any drop of their sweetness floweth may follow it up into the spring. Were we wise, each taste of mercy would lead us to the ocean of love. Have we any hold on a promise? We may get upon it, and it will bring us to the main, Christ Himself and the Spirit, and so into the bosom of the Father. It is our folly to abide upon a little, which is given us merely to make us press for more.

Laugh, Laugh, I thought I'd die.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

Do bad and remember, do good and forget.

The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale. Come, darkness, moonrise, everything That is so silent, sweet, and pale: Come, so ye wake the nightingale.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407 You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.