"Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact."

“The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.”

Source : Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

“Religion dies hard in the Irish.”

“South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.”

“I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.”

“They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.”

“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.”

“The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.”

“Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.”