The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.