Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exagerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.

I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air For breathing in their faces, beat the ground, For kissing of their feet; yet always bending Towards their project.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.

What a dog I got. His favourite bone is in my arm!

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

in Just-- spring when the world is mud-- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.