No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

It never ends, the bruiseof being

When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber!

He's totally caught me, and I'm never letting him toss me back.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.