One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.

Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.

I don't know your from adam's house cat!

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.