Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.

The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Rules without relationship equals rebellion.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Reject hatred without hating.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped, by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou, encouraged, they perfume life, discouraged, they poison it.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.