The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Sign on a church bulletin board: Planning to go to Heaven? Get your flight training here.

Some people attend church three times in their lives: when they're hatched, when they're matched, and when they're dispatched.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo.

Christmas Eve High o'er the lonely hills black turns to gray, Bird-song the valley fills, mists fold away Gray wakes to green again, Beauty is seen again, Gold and serene again dawneth the day. So, o'er the hills of life, stormy, forlorn, Out of the cloud and strife sunrise is born; Swift grows the light for us, Ended is night for us, Soundless and bright for us breaketh God's morn. Hear we no beat of drums, fanfare, nor cry, When Christ the herald comes quietly nigh; Splendor He makes on earth; Color awakes on earth; Suddenly breaks on earth light from the sky. Bid then farewell to sleep: rise up and run! What though the hill be steep? Strength's in the sun. Now you shall find at last Night's left behind at last, And for mankind at last, Day has begun!

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must worship its light though it is not our own, For liberty burst in its ray. Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard By a freeman, and thrill not his breast? Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word, As a Bethlehem Star of the West?

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

A wife is a person who can look in the top drawer of a dresser and find a man's handkerchief that isn't there.