War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

Feast of the Holy Cross When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware of the fact that their competence in science does not give them a clue to the problem of how their science should be used in the service of man. The sensitive visitor to the mesas of Los Alamos is almost sure to meditate on the experience of that gifted man, Klaus Fuchs. Though his work in the laboratories was outstanding, his decision concerning the use of what he knew was disastrous. What if, in addition to his scientific competence, the younger Fuchs had shared something of the Christian conviction of his father, Emil Fuchs? Much of the subsequent history of our earth might then have been different.

Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king.

'T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2.

In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.