I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

To stretch his legs between consultations, Maclean escorted his last patient to Baker Street station.

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over all evil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood to ashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876 The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.

If there had anywhere appeared in space Another place of refuge where to flee, Our hearts had taken refuge from that place, And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet, Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air, In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere, We fled to Thee. ... Richard Chevenix Trench April 8, 2000 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

I have worn out more tool pouches than you have sox.

O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-Beens, These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.