My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love... The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...

Alimony is having an ex-husband you can bank on.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.

Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is She you seek!

Ulcers are something you get from mountain climbing over molehills.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

The sinews of affairs are cut.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.

Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.