Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.But . . . an onion a day keeps everyone away.

For the poor wren will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. .

St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."

His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder.

Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy. It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet, if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how wilt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring, ... and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.

Feast of James the Apostle Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because Christ is in us.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

I'll print it, And shame the fools.

Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each love one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth as I am now.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.