The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.

The Buck Stops Here.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.

Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 Do we habitually remember how it offends our Lord to see divisions in the Christian Church, nations nominally Christian armed to the teeth against one another, class against class and individual against individual in fierce and relentless competition, jealousies among clergy and church-workers, communicants who forget that the sacrament of union with Christ is the sacrament of union with their fellow men? Christians are to be the makers of Christ's peace. Something we can all do is to reconcile individuals, families, classes, churches, nations. The question is, Are we, as churchmen and citizens, by work and by prayer, in our private conduct and our public action, doing our utmost with deliberate, unsparing effort! If so, our benediction is of the highest: it is to be, and to be acknowledged as being, sons of God.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.