Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. .

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. .

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the world's affairs, When we stumble, hold us; When we fall, lift us up; When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us; When we turn from what is good, turn us back; And bring us at last to Your glory.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Your children know you love them by your presence, not your presents.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.