The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Faith is sometimes equated with credulity, but it can be so equated only when the profound mistake is made of thinking of faith as primarily a matter of intellectual assent. As the New Testament uses the word, faith is trust, acceptance, commitment, vision. It is not a belief in this or that creed, it is a quality which lies rather in the realm of intuition than the intellect. Faith has indeed an element of true simplicity; it is one of the qualities -- perhaps the fundamental quality -- of the child-like spirit without which no man can enter the Kingdom of God. ... Anonymous December 16, 1996 But lo' the snare is broke, the captive's freed, By faith on all the hostile powers we tread, And crush through Jesus' strength the Serpent's head. Jesus hath cast the cursed Accuser down, Hath rooted up the tares by Satan sown: All nature bows to His benign command, And two are one in His almighty hand. One in His hand, O may we still remain, Fast bound with love's indissoluble chain; (That adamant which time and death defies, That golden chain which draws us to the skies!) His love the tie that binds us to His throne, His love the bond that perfects us in one, His only love constrains our hearts t' agree, And gives the rivet of Eternity.

If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Common sense is very uncommon.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.

No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.

In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.