We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

Oh! blame not the bard.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.