Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. The Books in My Life.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Justice does not descend from its pinnacle.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. Chalmers.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song; So shall the fair your handiwork peruse, Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.

Dieu et mon droit.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.