Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light, Where God speaks to Jones, In the very same tones, That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be separated from that new people of God in which its nature is to be made manifest.

Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages: For no one cares for matrimonial cooings. There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.