Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Jerry: I love you ... you complete me.

Light tomorrow with today.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.

It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call "to-whoo"! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."

Our arms are the only ones God has to hug His children.

In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you do?" You say this, even if you meet me ten times in one single hour: you, Postumus, have nothing, I suppose, to do.

Good Friday They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made things difficult for him now. There had been days when he had been too hectoring or domineering -- so, at least, these impossible people had said, though he himself denied it still. At all events, protesting to Rome, they had won the Emperor's ear, and humbled their governor. And that must not happen again. Ah, me! Is not this life of ours a fearsome thing? Take care! take care! for if you sin that sin, be sure that somehow you will pay for it -- and, it may be, at how hideous a price! So Pilate found in his day; so you, too, will find it in ours... Only God knows what may come out of that, if you should give way to it. Pilate was curt and domineering to the Jews one day. And it was because of that, months later, his unwilling hands set up the cross of Christ: unwilling -- but they did it. Take you care! for sin is very merciless. If you have had the sweet, [sin] will see to it that you quaff the bitter to the very dregs.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!