It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Feast of Mark the Evangelist The first article of Christian faith is that man has one and only one true object of worship. There is one Holy God, creator of heaven and earth. He is Lord of all life. To Him we are beholden for our life in all its meaning and its hope. Monotheism for the Christian means that anything else which is put in the place of our loyalty to God is an idol. The worship of national power, or racial prestige, or financial success, or cultural tradition, is a violation of the one truth about life, that all created things come from God. To commit life to the one true God is to refuse to have any other gods at all. Values there are in abundance, interests, plans, programs, loyalties to family and nation. But these are not gods; they do not save us; they are not holy in themselves.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. .

Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou, whatever suits the line: Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage, or Doris, Only, only, call me thine.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.

The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.

Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon. Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego Your future claims to each fantastic toe! Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands, Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.

Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.