Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Remember the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.

The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.