As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and justifiable reason of my good actions: so I must do nothing for my salvation hereafter, merely for the love I bear to mine own soul, though that also be one good and justifiable reason of that action; but the primary reason in both, as well as the actions that establish a good name, as the actions that establish eternal life, must be the glory of God.

Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird.

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.

Diem perdidi I have lost a day

Be tender to the young, compassionate to the aged, tolerant with the weak. For in your life you will be all of these.

And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.

A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.

He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.