Don't dream your life, but live your dream
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.