The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Men tell you the facts, but God will tell you the truth!

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

The collapse of character begins with compromise.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.

Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.