Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess That the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

You are the land. The land is you.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Life is a roller coaster.You can either scream every time you hit a bump or you can throw your hands up in the air and enjoy it.

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webster,