Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to gain a flight, And spread those pinions grey, But when they once are fairly poised, Far o'er each chirping thing Thou sailest wide to other lands, E'en sleeping on the wing.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.

There are three things extremely hard; steel, a diamond and to know ones self.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. Mercy is not ordinarily held to consist in pronouncing judgment on another man's deserts, but in relieving his necessities; in giving aid to the poor, not in inquiring how good they are. .. St. Ambrose December 8, 1997 There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves out more than is expedient to meet one man's taste and another man's prejudices. The ministry is a grand and holy affair, and it should find in us a simple habit of spirit and a holy but humble indifference to all consequences. A leading defect in Christian ministers is want of a devotional habit.

You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

might is right.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.

Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Others have done it before me. I can, too.

I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through him.

A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.