One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt Before the sad accounting day.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure.

Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm. So hallowed and so gracious is that time.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet?

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.