Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for... it is the city of the great King.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who sees God's face, that is self life, must die; What a death were it then to see God die!... It made his own lieutenant, Nature, shrink; It made his footstool crack, and the sun wink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its st...ump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »