Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Gratitude is expensive.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise.

True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.

Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that will our prayer.