Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It will perhaps be said that in our present state of schism this assertion of [spiritual] principle [of oneness] can give us no definite guidance for action, can provide us with no clear programme, and must remain unfruitful. Surely that is not wholly true. It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. If men believe in the existence of this unity, they may begin to desire it, and desiring it to seek for it, and seeking it to find it. If, when they find it, they refuse to deny it, in due time, by ways now unsearchable, they will surely return to external communion.

Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare, And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare, Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye, With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean any particular part of the Church; what we do mean is that conversion must leave one linked in loving fellowship with one's fellow believers. Conversion is not something simply between a man and Jesus Christ, with no other person involved. True, it may start in that way; but it cannot end in that way. Conversion is not individualistic. It is, in fact, just the opposite. It joins man to his fellow men, and certainly does not separate him from them. (Continued tomorrow).

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.