As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John DonneLet not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
John DonneKeep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John DonneCommemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
John Donne