A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sak — John Selden

"Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess."

"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear."

"No man is the wiser for his learning."

"You will want a book which contains not mans thoughts, but Gods — not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you — not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity — not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviours book and the sinners."

"Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak."

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."

"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"

"true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who"

"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."

"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art."

"and liars kill their kind but her,my love creates love only our"

"The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion ... , loud on the hustings, gay in the ball-room, mute and sullen at the family fireside."