I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower. To place me on that breast of snow Where I should bloom a wintry flower.

The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.

In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.

The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

All television is children's television.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . . Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Fallen Kosciusco.

I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

The fat's all in the fire.

And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

The noblest revenge is to forgive.

All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering. Buddhist prayer.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.