Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

You will come across hope and despair in almost every situation. Only one of them wins each time.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

The way to resumption is to resume.

Where thou art, that is home.

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.