Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.

Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

The world may be your oyster, but it doesn't mean you'll get its pearl.

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

It's only words...unless they're true.

Good Friday Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.