There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.

God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.

Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Continuing a short series on prayer: All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.

Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Every girl should use what mother nature gives her before father time takes it away.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Anger is a short madness.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.