Colder than a witches toe.

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

For surely in the blind deep-buried roots Of all men's souls to-day A secret quiver shoots.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.

For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.

I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight To consolate thine ear.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Now since our eternal state is as certainly ours, as our present state; since we are as certainly to live for ever, as we now live at all; it is plain, that we cannot judge of the value of any particular time, as to us, but by comparing it to that eternal duration, for which we are created.