"Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!"

“One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.”

“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”

“About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.”

“I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.”

“If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish”

Source : In D. Newsome 'The Parting of Friends' (1966) p. 395

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

“You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,’ so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.”

“We've been able to handle any team that you guys put in front of us. We've had confidence since day one. ... We feel like any team we play against, we've got what it takes to put ourselves in a position to win.”