There is no slavery but ignorance.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said Nick. "Let's climb higher." "No," I said. "I think we should be heading back now." "We have time," Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.

Wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers!

A feeble body weakens the mind.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 The principal part of faith is patience.

The is FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Repair).

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that "one man is as good as another;" a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

It is never death because they live in your heart foever.

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

If you can keep your head while all about are losing theirs and blaming it on you - perhaps you have underestimated the seriousness of the situation.

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?