There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A conservative is a worshipper of dead radicals.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness .

There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.

The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.

It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. - Thomas Tusser,

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.