If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Passion makes every detail important.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.