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.
THOMAS MOREFor 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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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.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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