If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.