Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Of two Evils we take the less.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Don't ever let the Man get you.

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

But there are times, " said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!

There is no known cure for severe affection for one's cat. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to go ahead and launch a kiss attack.

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.