Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 The scandal of the Bible does not lie so much in its claim to record the Word of God, as in its insistence that the Word of God is to be heard in a particular historical happening, in a particular locality -- and only there. To put it in a provocative manner: the Bible is theology. It is historical theology. It can reveal its meaning only to those who regard it as the Word of God, and are able to preserve a strict confidence in the universal significance of particular historical occasions.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Cheer up, children, I am all right.

And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Crescat scientia, vita excolatur

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laertius Diogenes,

This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu .

The heart is wiser than the intellect. -J.G. Holland.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.