Friday, 8 March 2013

Bible

1. I call the Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written pen.
                                                  -Carlyle

2. The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.
                          -Timothy Dwight

3. The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
                             -Ingersoll, Speech, 1881

4. The English Bible----a book which, if everything else in our language perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
                         -Macaulay

Friday, 1 March 2013

Bells

1. Curfew must not ring tonight.
                                          -Rosa H. Thorpe

2. Those evening bells! those evening bells!
    How many a tale their music tells!
                                                -Moore, Those Evening 
                                                 Bells


3. Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
                                           -Tennyson, In Memoriam