Feoh byth frofur fira gehwylcum Sceal theah manna gehwylc miclun hyt d×lan. Money is a comfort to each man, But everyone should nevertheless give it away freely.

-Anonymous
?c.900  The Rune Poem, l.1^2.

The first sense he had of God was when he was eleven years oldat Chigwell being retired intoa chamberalone: he was so suddenly surprised with a sense of inward comfort and (as he thought) an external glory in the room that he had many times said that from thence he has the Seal of Divinityand Immortality, that there was a God and thatthesoul of manwas capable ofenjoying his divine communications.

-Aubrey,John
  Of  William Penn, early Quaker. Brief Lives (published 1813).

Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Civilization, ch.4.

   esta¤   dema¤  s decirte que a esta altura no creo en predicadores ni en generales ni en las nalgas de miss universo ni en el arrepentimiento de los verdugos ni en el catecismo del confort ni en el flaco perdo¤  n de dios. It's not useless to tell you that, at this stage, I don't believe in preachers or generals or in Miss Universe's buttocks or in the executioner's repentance or in the catechism of comfort or in God's slim forgiving.

-Benedetti, Mario
  Poemas de otros,'Credo' ('Creed').

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD'SORDORDORDORDIsaiah 40:1^8.

Thirdly, It was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity. Into which holy estate these two persons present come now to be joined.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
Ballad of the White Horse, bk.1.

I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
Preface to reprint of  The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

The police dog of American fiction, except that his hatred isnottheresultof mere crabbednessbut of aneye that sees too deep for comfort.

-Fadiman, Clifton
Of US writer Ring Lardner. Quoted in Scott Meredith George S Kaufman and His Friends (1974).

Ich habe kein Gemu«  t, sondern Angst. I have no comfort, onlyanxiety.

-Frisch, Max Rudolph
Andorra, sc.9.

   Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistöslack they may beöthese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Carrion Comfort'.

   Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'No worst, there is none'.

There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse† Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

-Irving,Washington
  Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

It is at thesetimesthat you realisethe blessings of a good thick skirt† Save for a good many bruises, here I was with the fulness of my skirt tucked under me, sitting on nine ebony spikes some twelve inches long, in comparative comfort.

-Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
  Travels in West  Africa (published1899).

Qu'est-ce qu'une charite¤   qui n'a point de pudeur avec le mise¤  rable, et qui, avant de le soulager, commence par e¤  craser son amour-propre. What is that charity worth which does not spare the wretched person's feelings, which instead, before providing comfort, beginsby wiping out hisself-esteem.

-Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de
La vie de Marianne, ch.14.

Thethoughtofsuicide isagreat sourceofcomfort across many a bad night.

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
  Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section157 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve¤  . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, pt.7, no.553 (translatedby L Braunschvicg, 1909).

Be a good manöbe virtuousöbe religiousöbe a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Last words, addressed to Lockhart, quoted inJohn G Lockhart Memoirs of the Life of SirWalter Scott, Bart. (1837^8). Scott concluded by saying 'God bless you all.'