The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.

The plastic virtues: Purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

An Austrian army awfully arrayed.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 What fellowship means in material matters is made very plain. Every man is to work for his living. "If a man will not work, neither let him eat." But those who cannot work are to be provided for out of the common fund. Old and helpless persons who have relations of their own should, indeed, find support from them and not be forced to come upon the Church; but for the resourceless the Church must provide. And those who are rich and who earn more than enough to support their own families are to be willing contributors to the common fund. The love of money -- the desire to accumulate wealth -- is the root of every kind of evil. The relation of one to another is to be that of members in one body, in which, if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.