Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me; Thy Smiles I count not, nor thy frowns I fear, My days are past, my head lies quiet here. What faults you saw in me take Care to shun, Look but at home, enough is to be done.

Your desk looks like an explosion in a paper factory.

Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963 That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear [in the world today], because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Round numbers are always false.

Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

Respondeat superior Let the superior answer

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.