Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.

Never follow the crowd.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O Love Divine, O Helper ever-present, Be Thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting; Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love that answers mine. I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit Be with me then to comfort and uphold; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit, Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if -- my good and ill unreckoned, And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace - I find myself by hands familiar beckoned Unto my fitting place.

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

You may only be one person in the world, but to one person you may be the world.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

To teach is to learn twice.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith, and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. .

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.