Famous quotes containing the words religion, guinea and/or faith:
“Religion is an attempt to get an irrefragably safe investment, and this cannot be got, no matter how low the interest, which in the case of religion is about as low as it can be.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)