Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat. Now give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each love one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth as I am now.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

When this van's a-rockin, don't come a-knockin.

The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away. In such a bright, late quiet, would that I Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks, And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, And music of kind voices ever nigh; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.

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

A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.