Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.

reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,

See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles God always gives us strength enough, and sense enough, for every thing that He wants us to do.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.