How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good.

People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts.

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

happy smoke (marijauna).

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men.

So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.

There is no time like the pleasant.

People do not care how much you know, till they know how much you care!

God is seated in the hearts of all.

Jesus did not come to make God's love possible, but to make God's love visible.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.