The trouble is small, the fun is great.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.

A good husband makes a good wife.

The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

unwept, unhonored and unsung.

Just say charge it.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.

If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

A thief believes everybody steals.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown; She bears the glamour of one star Upon her violet crown.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.