Gluttony kills more then the sword.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 [The Christian] refuses to give his heart to, or be taken in by, the values and pleasures off this passing world. He does not hesitate to use all that is good and beautiful and true, partly because he knows that his God gives him "richly all things to enjoy", and partly because he knows that in all life's impermanent beauties and pleasures, there is the promise of the real and permanent which he is thoroughly convinced will exceed his wildest expectations. (Continued tomorrow).

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

It is difficult not to write satire.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.