Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication , ideas not derived from any systematic process , ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process , ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process , ideas which have already passed authentication processes , as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes .

Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 All love in general hath an assimilating efficacy; it casts the mind into the mould of the thing beloved... Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise of falling weights that never fell, Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.