"O sad estate Of human wretchedness; so weak is man, So ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request."

"Now I lay me down to take my sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take."

"Father of All! in every age, In every clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!"

"As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee."

"Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny."

"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast."

"Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down."

"If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way!"

"First pray for the gift of tears, so that through sorrowing you may tame what is savage in your soul. And having confessed your transgressions to the Lord, you will obtain forgiveness from Him."

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

"'Twas then belike," Honorious cried, "When you the public fast defied, Refused to heav'n to raise a prayer, Because you'd no connections there."

"Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth."

"In all thou dost first let thy Prayers ascend, And to the Gods thy Labours first commend, From them implore Success, and hope a prosperous End."

"We must judge of men's intentions by their acts, and not by expressions in letters, which are contrary to their acts."

"Words are transient, and vanish in the air as soon as spoken, and there can be no tenor of them . . . but when a thing is written, though every omission of a letter may not make a variance, yet, if such omission makes a word of another signification, it is fatal."

"He says one thing, but he does another; it seems to me to be common sense to look at what is done, and not to what is said."

"Is not the Judge bound to know the meaning of all words in the English language; or if they are used technically or scientifically, to inform his own mind by evidence, and then to determine the meaning?"

"Qiue ad unumfinem loqunta sunt, non debent ad alium detorqueri: Those words which are spoken to one end, ought not to be perverted to another."

"Nay, gentlemen, do not quarrel about words."

"Most of the disputes in the world arise from words."

"Rather commend yourself by your actions, than your expressions; one good action is worth twenty good expressions."

"Words pass from men lightly."

"There is no magic in words."

"Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way."

"The words are like Jack in a Box, and nobody knows what to make of them."

"Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind."

"As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things."

"You [Pindar] who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything."

"You phrase tormenting fantastic chorus, With strangest words at your beck and call."

"Hold fast the form of sound words."

"Dictum sapienti sat est."

"As the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum!" and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master."

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!""

"Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird."

"The artillery of words."

"But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit; And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root; For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end."

"I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting."

"The arts Babblative and Scriblative."

"Would you repeat that again, sir, for it soun's sae sonorous that the words droon the ideas?"

"I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. * * * * * In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more."

"He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other."

"Satis eloquentiæ sapientiæ parum."

"Souvent d'un grand dessein un mot nous fait juger."

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

"The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."

"Schnell fertig ist die Jugend mit dem Wort."

"Inanis verborum torrens."

"Words will build no walls."