It would talk; Lord, how it talked!

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: We might have said beforehand, if we had been told that God was coming into a man's life, ... "That must be something very terrible and awful. That certainly must rend and tear the life to which God comes. At least, it will separate it and make it unnatural and strange. God fills a bush with His glory and it burns. God enters into the great mountain, and it rocks with earthquake. When he comes to occupy a man, He must distort the humanity which He occupies into some inhuman shape." Instead of that, this new life into which God comes, seems to be the most quietly, naturally human life that was ever seen upon the earth. It glides into its place like sunlight. It seems to make it evident that God and man are essentially so near together, that the meeting of their natures in the life of a God-man is not strange. So always does Christ deal with His own nature, accepting His Divinity as you and I accept our humanity, and letting it shine out through the envelope with which it has most subtly and mysteriously mingled, as the soul is mingled with and shines out through the body.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart -- this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.

Moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine.

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

We grow small trying to be great.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.