They burned his bones to ashes and cast them into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running close by. Thus the brook conveyed his ashes to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas and they into the main ocean. And so the ashes of Wycliffe are symbolic of his doctrine, which is now spread throughout the world.- Thomas Fuller: The Church History of Britain (1655)

I am weak; Satan is mighty; God is almighty.-Unknown

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.-John Milton, 1608 - 1674

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. - Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.-John Chrysostom (345?-407)

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), 1819 - 1880

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.-- Jennie Jerome Churchill, 1854 - 1921

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834

My sins are many, but, oh, it is nothing to Jesus to take them all away. - Spurgeon

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778
(nb not true but illustrative of enlightenment folly - GJW)

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.-François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778-

All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778