We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.

I am not now That which I have been.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.

Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown!

It is impossible to love and be wise.

In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

The Bear and the Fox A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.

A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings, A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole And put it in his pocket--

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

You've reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night, you pray it isn't for you.

Temptation resisted is the true measure of character.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail.