"Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility."

“The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.434

“If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.”

Source : 1947 The Irish.

“The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.”

“Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.”

“Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were.”

“But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”

Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

“Well, I don't want no bald headed woman.”

“[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning...”