It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist, 'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed-- 'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Diplomacy -- the art of letting someone have your own way.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.

Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.