"Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to resist when temptation seems great. But when he looks into the laws of God, and hears the words of Christ, his natural sense of right and wrong is restored to him, and he becomes elevated, purified, and sanctified.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Thank God, I have done my duty.

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.'

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.