Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.

We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth and our whole wealth to obtain youth.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Still waters run deep.

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

The latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes. -Doc Childre.