In this respect it is a pity the anthology has no more room than it has for extracts from the letters column, a water-hole at which proud beasts appear fortnightly and charge at one another head down, sometimes for months on end.

Clive James, “Lively Copy”

Its atmosphere of fiscal unreality made the venture hard to defend with a whole heart when it was attacked. A sitting duck dolled up like a flamingo, it was attacked often, most tellingly on grounds of waste.

Clive James, “Lively Copy”

Our winged thoughts no longer soar.

Thoreau, “Walking”

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —

I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes, “I, Too”

Heresies — as many as are divorced from the truth — are conspicuous, even to themselves, by their insane contrivance.

Athanasius, Orations against the Arians, Book 1. Tr. Rusch

Οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτως ἀγαθὸν 
ὡς τὸ οἰκειοῦσθαι τῷ Θεῷ

Nothing is as good
as intimacy with God

John Chrysostom, On Philippians, 5.2