The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.

Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; White are his shoulders and white his crest.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will Would not admit.

When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laertius Diogenes,

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.

Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no, I dare not.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his arms around me, and when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me.

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.

Learn to think impartially.

Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.

Lord, be merciful, shut me up when my life speaks so much louder than my words.

The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.

Sometimes I know that there is intelligent life on other planets because they haven't tried to contact us.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.