Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in the end, [Jude] calls the attention of the faithful to the last day. For the hope of that alone ought to sustain us, so that we may at no time despond; otherwise, we must necessarily fail every minute.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is revelation. Its seers and prophets are not men of philosophic mind, who have risen from the seen to the unseen and, by dint of much reflection, have gradually attained to elevated conceptions of Him who is the Author of all that is. They are men of God whom God has chosen, that He might speak to them and, through them, to His people. Israel has not, in and by them, created for itself a God: God has, through them, created for Himself a people.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

What is the most important thing to learn in chemistry? Never lick the spoon.

While bright-eyed science watches round.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.