Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Era of good feeling.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.

Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373 When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself; and you will understand what little chance you have trying to change others.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "No Shit!" or at least, "No kidding!".