Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment… - Edwin A. Abbott

He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best that loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

the birth of children is too important a matter to have been allowed to depend upon such an accident as proximity.

[S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace.