You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels it, and so should the Christian in the presence of pain, cruelty, violence, and injustice. God, who is the Father of Jesus Christ, is neither impersonal nor beyond good and evil. By the absolute immutability of His character, He is implacably opposed to evil and outraged by it.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.