Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

You cound'nt pull a pint, never mind a bird.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

In the great right of an excessive wrong.

Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors.

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

What the devil was he doing in this galley?

No matter what happens Today. You must remember that...Today will be Tomorrow's past, and Tomorrow will be Today.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Don't count your eggs before they've hatched.