To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.