And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their chivalry and valour. Often He underlines the difficulties of discipleship, warns us what it will cost, that it means risk and loss and sacrifice, and pulling hard against fierce currents; and then He turns and looks at us, with that honouring trust of His in us that sets the blood tingling and makes the cheeks flush with pride. That, He says quietly, is why I am so sure that you will come: you are too big to keep out of it! And, indeed, in His own day, it was only daring and adventurous spirits who would risk declaring for Him, as it is only daring and adventurous spirits still who have the pluck to try to follow so original and unpopular a Master in the real living-out of life.

But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee To nothing but despair.

A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

It is a man's world, and you men can have it.

Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

as interesting as two blind men having a conversation in sign language.

To give importance to trifling matters.

And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

Feast of Mark the Evangelist To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

"For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,-- For the moss-rose and the musk-rose, Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,-- "What glory then for me In such a company?-- Roses plenty, roses plenty And one nightingale for twenty?"

I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.