Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth.

Hunger is sharper than the sword.

The Ox and the Frog An ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him. He is dead, dear Mother, for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel. The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, if the beast was as big as that in size. Cease, Mother, to puff yourself out, said her son, and do not be angry, for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.

The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill-- . . . . The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo grey, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer nay.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and science flow, All pity, care and love, All calm and courage, faith and hope; O pour them from above. And part them, Lord, to each and all, As each and all shall need, To rise like incense, each to Thee, In noble thought and deed. And hasten, Lord, that perfect day When pain and death shall cease, And Thy just rule shall fill the earth With health and light and peace.

Two men looked out of prison bars. One saw mud and the other saw stars.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.