If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

You become what you behold.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.