Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. - Isaac Watts,

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of God's Spirit is present everywhere and at all times. Our environment itself -- our home and our job -- is the medium through which we experience His moulding action and His besetting love. It is not Christian to try to get out of our frame, or to separate our outward life from our life of prayer, since both are the creation of one Charity. The third-rate little town in the hills, with its limited social contacts and monotonous manual work, reproves us when we begin to fuss about our opportunities and our score. And this quality of quietness, ordinariness, simplicity, with which the saving action of God enters history, endures from the beginning to the end.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!

Christians aren't perfect, they're just forgiven!

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. 'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she Away the Graces would no Graces be.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.

If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.