Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.

However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the faculty of decision. If you are determined in your purpose, if you have the will to do the Will, then with half a creed and less than half a pious ecstasy, you are at least in the line of the purpose of Jesus Christ; and as you will to do His will, may come some day to know the teaching.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: parasitic societies and producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - William Hazlitt,