In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.

Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, after the commandments and doctrines of men?

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.

But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want--

Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?

no blood, no foul.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.