A parishioner had undergone a serious operation and was still under the influence of the sedative when the vicar came, so the vicar just said a prayer and left. The next day he returned and asked the patient if he had been aware of his visit. "I vaguely remember your visit yesterday. I remember opening my eyes and thinking 'I can't be in Heaven because there is the vicar'.".

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear, The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood Which breathed this poison.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . Sandra Carey.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.

Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.