The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."

There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.

Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!

The way to the heart is through the ears -Katie Hurley.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.