To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.