Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.

A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he is no man's for else.

Popularity is glory's small change.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

To make a ragout, first catch your hare.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

Continuing a short series on prayer: We know that the wind blows; why should we not know that God answers prayer? I reply, What if God does not care to have you know it at second-hand? What if there would be no good in that? There is some testimony on record, and perhaps there might be much more were it not that, having to do with things so immediately personal, and generally so delicate, answers to prayer would naturally not often be talked about; but no testimony concerning the thing can well be conclusive; for, like a reported miracle, there is always some way to daff it; and besides, the conviction to be got that way is of little value: it avails nothing to know the thing by the best of evidence... `But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" In answer, What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need -- the need of Himself? (Continued tomorrow).

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If thou refusest to comply with this order, thou canst not be a living member of Christ, nor be united with Him by faith.