Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

What one has, one ought to use, and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

It's like a slurpee for yuppies.

Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the old assurance and enthusiasm to cool below the temperature at which big things get done, is always whimpering and complaining about something, has developed a foolish trick of gathering into corners in discouraged groups and bleating disconsolately that God seems to be strangely little in our day, the very mood that so maddened the Hebrew prophets that they itched to lay violent hands upon their countrymen, and literally shake it out of them. We Church people have become so prone to loud and abusive self-depreciation that the thing amounts to a disease... and though these doleful spirits are not altogether serious, the world is listening, and takes us, not unnaturally, at our own dismal and unflattering valuation.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Love, like paint, can make things beautiful when you spread it, but it simply dries up when you don't use it.

And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge Couldn't carry the freight Of the monstrous weight Of all of his qualities, good and great. And tho' one view is as good as another Don't take my word for it. Ask his mother!

She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass! Spring up like Summer grass, Surge at her, mass on mass, Still shall you break like glass, Splinter and break like shivered glass, But pass? You shall not pass!

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

"Is ignorance or apathy the biggest problem with the world today?" "I don't know and I don't care".

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.