For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal; But as the slow years darklier roll, Grown wiser, the experienced soul Will own as dearer far than they The lips which kiss the tears away.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of v. 18] The glory to come far outweighs the affliction of the present. The affliction is light and temporary when compared with the all-surpassing and everlasting glory. So Paul, writing against a background of recent and (even for him) unparalleled tribulation, had assured his friends in Corinth a year or two before this that 'this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison' (2 Cor 4:17). It is not merely that the glory is a compensation for the suffering; it actually grows out of the suffering. There is an organic relation between the two for the believer as surely as there was for the Lord.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.

Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface."

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.