Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.

VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

if the shoe fits, wear it.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.