Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Continuing a short series on prayer: All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To join blest spirits in celestial lands!

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.