Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.

Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.

We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.