Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Generally, common sense is rare in the rank.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.

Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any thoughts but those of the world to come. Here we gather together for no earthly business, but for a purpose of one sort only; and that purpose is the same for which saints and angels are met together in that innumerable company before the throne of God. If there is a place on earth which, however faintly and dimly, shadows out the courts of God on high, surely it is where His people are met together, in all their weakness and ignorance and sin, in their poor and low estate, yet with humble and faithful hearts, in His House of Prayer.

give space to time, and time will fill space.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.

Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it... Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can nnot be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow -- in which no work can be done, any more than in yesterday.