I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Ash Wednesday Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Men must not content themselves with the lawfulness of their employments, but must consider whether they use them, as they are to use everything, as strangers and pilgrims that are baptised into the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that we are to follow Him in a wise and heavenly course of life, in the mortification of the worldly desires, and in purifying and preparing their souls for the blessed enjoyment of God. For to be vain, or proud, or covetous, or ambitious, in the common course of our business, is as contrary to these holy tempers of Christianity as cheating and dishonesty. If a glutton were to say, in excuse of his gluttony, that he only eats such things as it is lawful to eat, he would make as good an excuse for himself as the greedy, covetous, ambitious tradesman that would say that he only deals in lawful business. For, as a Christian is not only required to be honest, but to be of a Christian spirit, and make his life an exercise of humility, repentance, and heavenly affection, so all tempers that are contrary to these are as contrary to Christianity as cheating is contrary to honesty.

Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait. God laid His fingers on the ivories Of her pure members as on smoothed keys, And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.

In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take prozac to make it normal.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.