William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

Edith Cavell

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me”. –Edith Cavell

Zachary Taylor

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory”. –Zachary Taylor

King Henry VIII

“Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness”. –King Henry VIII

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

John Marshall

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies”. –Dean Acheson

Jesus Christ

“You shall know truth, and the truth shall set you free”. –Jesus Christ

T.S. Eliot

“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”. –T.S. Eliot

Benjamin Disraeli

“Consider Ireland. You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question”. –Benjamin Disraeli

Thomas Malthus

“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man”. –Thomas Malthus

Francis Bacon

“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover truth”. –Francis Bacon

Benjamin Jowett

“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door”. –Benjamin Jowett

Charles Kingsley

“Science frees us in many ways… from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming”. –Charles Kingsley