Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were.

Every man has two countries, his own and France.

Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Faith knows nothing of external guarantees -- that is, of course, faith as an original experience of the life of the Spirit. It is only in the secondary esoteric sphere of the religious life that we find guarantees and a general attempt to compel faith. To demand guarantees and proofs of faith is to fail to understand its very nature by denying the free, heroic act which it inspires. In really authentic and original religious experience, to the existence of which the history of the human spirit bears abundant witness, faith springs up without the aid of guarantees and compelling proofs, without any external coercion or the use of authority.

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.

Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. . . . . Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

Beauty and grace command the world.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

To think too long about doing a thing, often becomes its undoing.