As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken by the mouth of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts, to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what has been divinely commanded.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility.

It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.'

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.

Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights, And I trow The damsel, deftly shod, Has dutifully trod Until now.

Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us, Showing his shield A shelter for peace.