"Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way."

“Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!”

“When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.”

“Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.853, Library of America

“In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.”

“I have a lifelong devotion to public service.”

“People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.”

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”