Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

Whoever encounter Jesus Christ shall never be the same.

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.