Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to soar That gave the gods their wings. . . . . There throbs through all the worlds that are This heart-beat not and strong, And shaken systems, star by star, Awake and glow in song.

Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more than a glorified Jesus Christ in the heavens in which [the Apostles] believed. In the beginning, John the Baptist had taught his disciples to expect from Christ the baptism -- not of water only, as in his baptism -- but of the Spirit. Before His death, Jesus had sought to fill His disciples' minds with the expectation of this gift... And that Spirit had come in sensible power upon them some ten days after Jesus disappeared for the last time from their eyes... And this Spirit was the Spirit of God, but also, and therefore, the Spirit of Jesus. Jesus was not then merely a past example, or a remote Lord, but an inward presence and power. A mere example in past history becomes in experience a feebler and feebler power... But the example of Jesus was something much more than a memory. For He who had taught them in the past how to live was alive in the heavenly places and was working within them by His Spirit.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er the hill and far away, Despising doleful dumps. - Unattributed Author,

Pentecost Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.