Blushing is the colour of virtue.

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed fields of heaven where once my Faith possessed itself serenely safe from death; If I deny things past finding out; Or if I orphan my own soul from One That seemed a Father, and make void the place Within me where He dwelt in Power and Grace, What do I gain by what I have undone?

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

What you are will show in what you do.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience.