Knavery's now its own reward.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature.

I take Him shopping with me. I say, "OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain."

Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense? Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? What lawful quest have given their verdict up Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death Before I be convict by course of law? To threaten me with death is most unlawful: I charge you, as you hope That you depart, and lay no hands on me. The deed you undertake is damnable.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why!

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

To touch the quick.

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, And the one bird singing alone to his nest. And the one star over the tower.

Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister: He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.