The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer

A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

To morrow let us do or die.

One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the unexpected soon Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard, A sinner does the task you should assume, A leper who is cleansed must show his proof: Suddenly you see your very roof remove And a cripple clutters up your living-room. There's no telling what to expect when Christ Walks in the door. The table set for four Must often be enlarged, and decorum Thrown to the winds. It's His voice that calls them, And it's no use to bolt and bar the door: His kingdom knows no bounds of roof, of wall or floor.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Habit never goes Because if you remove H Abit remains, If you remove A Bit remains, If you remove B It still remains.

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.

If we'd confess our sins to one another we'd all laugh at the lack of originality.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.