Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27

Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them, And God befriend us as our cause is just!

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.

All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast; And now the happy season once more fits That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest; For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.

If someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.

Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a queen.

Second place is the first loser.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.