There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.