Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse--borne away with every breath.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

As you sow y' are like to reap.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

A small family is soon provided for.

Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.

If you set the example, you won't need to set many rules.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

For nothing human foreign was to him.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune, but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.