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“When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.”
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“Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.”
Source : Edward Caswall (1873). “Hymns and Poems, Original and Translated”, p.281
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“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”
Source : John Marsden (2010). “Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.182, Pan Australia
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“I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.”
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“And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.”
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“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”
Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251
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“There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.”
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“I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.”
Source : "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974. 
