A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.

We become wiser by adversity, prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?

A frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching Him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His providence, enlighten them with His Spirit, and bring them to everlasting happiness, is the divinest exercise that the heart of man can be engaged in. Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own... It was this holy intercession that raised Christians to such a state of mutual love, as far exceeded all that had been praised and admired in human friendship. And when the same spirit of intercession is again in the world, when Christianity has the same power over the hearts of people that it then had, this holy friendship will be again in fashion, and Christians will be again the wonder of the world, for that exceeding love which they bear to one another.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. .

Alis volat Propriis

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road Is spreading far and wide!

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast With the new leaven, The bread of heaven: All welcome, even the least!