The true function of art is to...edit nature and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.

By many a happy accident.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912 The kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power, the power of Godliness. Though now we are fallen upon another method, we have turned all religion into faith, and our faith is nothing but the production of interest or disputing; it is adhering to a party and a wrangling against all the world beside--and when it is asked of what religion he is, we understand the meaning to be what faction does he follow, what are the articles of his sect, not what is the manner of his life: and if men be zealous for their party and that interest, then they are precious men, though otherwise they be covetous as the grave, factious as Dathan, schismatical as Korah, or proud as the fallen angels.

The mind can only stand what the butt can endure.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

February makes a bridge and March breakes it.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 The missionary goes out to men of other faiths and of no faith, not to argue, not to make comparisons, never to claim a superior knowledge or revelation, but to tell of a glorious deed, of the New Creation that has occurred and of the New Being that has appeared and into which men may enter. This is testimony, the apostolic testimony, and this, with the energy of love, is the missionary motive. The insistent task of missionary education and responsibility is to engender this motive throughout the Church, a task that can only be accomplished as men are confronted anew with the message of the Bible and with its supreme and central story, the story of the cross.

You can't be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. The August-born without this stone 'Tis said must live unloved and lone.

For strong souls Live like fire hearted suns, to spend their strength In furthest striving action.