The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,

And these vicissitudes come best in youth, For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

You will find only what you bring in.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, Where wide the storms their banners fling, And the tempest clouds are driven.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers by them that make profession of it. Never was there less regard for the Person and offices of Christ, of His grace, and of the benefits of His mediation, among them that are called Christians, than is found among many at this day.