If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Open your mind to God's wisdom, open your soul to God's peace, open your heart to God's love and all three will stay with you forever.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

But above all things truth is victor.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.

Eat to your heart’s content.

Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer.