Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of reality—to make something real.

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush and tyranny Tremble at patience.

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world. - William Hazlitt,

Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.