An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.

Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

A nearsighted minister glanced at the note that Mrs. Jones had sent to him by way of an usher. The note read: "Bill Jones having gone to sea, his wife desires the prayers of the congregation for his safety." Failing to observe the punctuation, the clergyman startled his audience by announcing: "Bill Jones, having gone to see his wife, desires the prayers of the congregation for his safety.".

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing!

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have got to set your self on fire for it.

Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, Fading in music.

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins.

And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night, altern.

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to do so, still more because I am no great friend to such pigeon-holing. One very effective way of silencing the voice of conscience is to impound in an Ism the teacher through whom it speaks; the trumpet no longer seriously disturbs our rest when we have murmured '..Thomist', 'Barthian', or 'Existentialist'. And in Macdonald it is, always the voice of conscience that speaks. He addresses the will: the demand for obedience, for "something to be neither more nor less nor other than done" is incessant. Yet in that very voice of conscience every other faculty somehow speaks as well -- intellect and imagination and humour and fancy and all the affections; and no man in modern times was perhaps more aware of the distinction between Law and Gospel, the inevitable failure of mere morality.