O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another.

Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Only a fool took a remote from a god.