I have just got a new theory of eternity.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to believe; whose strength I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find You need it not.

Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.

It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled.

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752 The purpose of the covenant, in the Hebrew Bible and some subsequent writings, was never simply that the creator wanted to have Israel as a special people, irrespective of the fate of the rest of the world. The purpose of the covenant was that, through this means, the creator would address and save his entire world. The call of Abraham was designed to undo the sin of Adam.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.