Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'