Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak: Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.

He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

All great virtues become great men.

Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Nor is the fact that a particular form was good in a particular age any proof that it is also good for another age. The history of the organization of Christianity has been in reality the history of successive readjustments of form to altered circumstances. Its power of readjustment has been at once a mark of its divinity and a secret of its strength.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

No man is such a conquerer as the man who has defeated himself.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

My heart Is true as steel. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

The foundation of relationships is based on the premise of mutual purpose.

Art is work, to sell it is art.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.