I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.

If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself!

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. 'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she Away the Graces would no Graces be.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou are gone, and for ever!

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 To me there is a much more frightening ignorance in our modern world than the "ignorance of the heathen". I am referring to the almost total ignorance of the content and implication of the Christian Faith shown by many "clever" people today. Frankly, I find it horrifying to discover that men who are experts in their own line -- in astronomy, genetics, or nuclear physics, for example -- have no adult knowledge of what the Church of Christ stands for, and a complete blank ignorance of what the Church is achieving today. It is the more horrifying because people who rightly respect the expert for his knowledge in his own field have no idea that he has not carefully examined and reluctantly discarded Christianity; but in all probability he has never studied it at all!