The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.

Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649 Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.

Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 Beginning a short series on the Bible: Arguments for the existence of God are very restricted; some of them are more restricted and limited than others. They do not prove beyond all question the existence of the God of the Bible. Furthermore, it must be remembered that man's mind, his thinking process, has been affected by his fall into sin. This means that there are definite limitations to God's revelation in nature. The problem is not in the revelation but in the receiver of the revelation.

Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! On blithe Yuletide when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh: Ha, ha! the wooing o't!

I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.