If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. -Galatians.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

The fat's all in the fire.

Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will-he will be sure to repent it.

There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.