But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man.

God answers knee-mail.

It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public.

Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.

To build castles in Spain.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. -Aristotle.

As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the making up of a man, Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature; And did he not, each morning, new create thee, Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?