The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it. -Unknown.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.

Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame?

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.

A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is dead energy.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.

It is important that those who read this book should not try to take an indecent advantage of Catholic self-criticism. When we are willing to bring some honest criticism to our own positions, the lumbering Institution will become a Movement again, and we shall rediscover the Pilgrim Church.