Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Imitation is suicide.

Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.