Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind.

Stupid is as stupid does.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274 It is necessary to die, but nobody wants to; you don't want to, but you are going to, willy-nilly. A hard necessity that is, not to want something which can not be avoided. If it could be managed, we would much rather not die; we would like to become like the angels by some other means than death. "We have a building from God," says St. Paul, "a home not made with hands, everlasting in heaven. For indeed we groan, longing to be clothed over with our dwelling from heaven; provided, though we be found clothed, and not naked. For indeed we who are in this dwelling place groan, being burdened; in that we do not wish to be stripped, but to covered over, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: "This way, please." Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you?

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. .

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Art is I; Science is we.