Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.

When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold My beautiful castles in Spain!

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Hell is full of good intentions.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.

A crafty knave needs no broker.