Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem . . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.

Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny....'

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.

Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.

Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Darker than darkest pansies.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.