Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

serenity now!

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

at wits' end.

He heard the convent bell, Suddenly in the silence ringing For the service of noonday.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down. ... George Whitefield, letter [Thanks to Bill Blake at pilgrimwb@aol.com] September 7, 2000 Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write, Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put off the shadow from thy brow: No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one, But man, as man, thy brother call; And scatter, like a circling sun, Thy charities on all. ... Friedrich von Schiller September 8, 2000 Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Popularity is glory's small change.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Panurge had a flea in his ear.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.