Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

And the cold marble leapt to life a God.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness .

Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord 'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of God at the hands of a godless world. He must therefore plunge himself into the life of a godless world, without attempting to gloss over its ungodliness with a veneer of religion or trying to transfigure it. He must live a 'worldly' life and so participate in the suffering of God. He may live a worldly life as one emancipated from all false religions and obligations. To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to cultivate some particular form of asceticism (as a sinner, a penitent, or a saint), but to be a man. It is not some religious act which makes a Christian what he is, but participation in the suffering of God in the life of the world.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.