THE PLACE OF THE IDIOT

 I often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year.   -- Jonathan Swift                             Samuel Johnson, w...

  Mandy Patinkin on Gaza: "How Could It Be Done To Your Ancestors, And Then You Turn Around And Do It To Someone Else?" But of th...

   Repentance so altereth and changeth a man through the mercy of God, be he never so defiled, that it maketh him pure and clear.   -- John ...

    The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear, That, had the self-enamour'd youth gaz'd here, He but the bottom, not his face, h...

I would rather be a poor beggar's wife and be sure of heaven, than queen of all the world . . ..   Verily, I swear, ’tis better to be l...