Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.

I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.

And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it; High, high above earth's life, earth's labor E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar. To hover as the thunder's neighbor, The very firmament explore. To be a voice as from above Like yonder stars so bright and clear, That praise their Maker as they move, And usher in the circling year. Tun'd be its metal mouth alone To things eternal and sublime. And as the swift wing'd hours speed on May it record the flight of time!

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.

Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!

Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

she's quite a ONE !

Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 "He cannot deny Himself" [II Tim. 2:13], means at the same time He cannot deny His grace to the sinful, and He cannot deny the moral order in which alone He can live in fellowship with men; and we see the inviolableness of both asserted in the death of Jesus. Nothing else in the world demonstrates how real is God's love to the sinful, and how real the sin of the world is to God. And the love which comes to us through such an expression, bearing sin in all its reality, yet loving us through and beyond it, is the only love which at once forgives and regenerates the soul.

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.