Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

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

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

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

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.