The poetry of the earth is never dead.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.

For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood and one in blood established; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; A base foul stone, made precious by the foil Of England's chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God's enemy.

Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared. ... Theologia Germanica April 14, 1996 This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

When the Jones family moved into their new house, a visiting relative asked five-year-old Sammy how he liked the new place. "It's terrific," he said. "I have my own room, Mike has his own room, and Jamie has her own room. But poor mom is still in with dad.".

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

It is better to receive than to do an injury.

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has understanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.