"Sidney Godophin, " said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way. "

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place t ...