'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more.

Break a leg.

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to the statement that God's power is not limited by anything outside His own creative purpose: in that sense He is omnipotent, but it is even impossible for Him to exercise that power in certain ways without thereby ceasing to be our Father. In that sense God is not omnipotent: He is limited by His own nature, by His perfect goodness and mercy; for the omnipotence of God means nothing apart from His Fatherly love. In particular, this limitation of the power of God is to be found in the measure of freedom which, as His children, we enjoy. God shares His power with us so that, for a time at least, if we so determine, we can break His laws and frustrate His plans, but also so that we can give to Him, if we choose, the free allegiance of our hearts and minds, and become children at His Family Table, drawn together by the compulsion of His love, and not the exercise of His might.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself, and what it does contain, In all things needful to be known is plain.

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!