Toil is the true knight's pastime

Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.

Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.

Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.