When your head did but ache, / I knit my 25 handkerchief about your brows, / The best I had; a princess wrought it me; / And I did never ask it you again. King John, iv. 1.
Whence? O Heavens, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows not; only that it is through mystery to mystery, from God to God. Carlyle on the drama of life.
Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, / Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, / Our hearts, in glad surprise, / To higher levels rise. Longfellow.
Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours; and when they separate, depend upon it, 'tis for no other cause but quietness' sake. Sterne.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. Burke.
Whenever I see a new-married couple more 30 than ordinarily fond before faces, I consider them as attempting to impose upon the company or themselves; either hating each other heartily, or consuming that stock of love in the beginning of their course which should serve them throughout their whole journey. Goldsmith.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Gibbon.
Whenever the people flock to see a miracle, it is a hundred to one but that they see a miracle. Goldsmith.
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. Whipple.
Whensoever a man desireth anything inordinately, he is presently disquieted in himself. Thomas à Kempis.