I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?
That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.