Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage, the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.