I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists himself as a soldier to fight under Christ's banner all his life after. And Saint Paul, speaking of those that die with Christ, that they may live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, does not mean this of monks only, but of Christians universally. ... The Colloquies of Erasmus July 13, 1999 Do right, and God's recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God's reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness of giving. Love, and God will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven: love is God within you.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

nothing ventured, nothing lost (or gained).

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. -Koran.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

a walk is as good as a hit (baseball).

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.