Don't get mad, get even.

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The great fishpond .

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.

weed (marijauna.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute. -Junius.

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.

Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933 How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.