When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

The fewer words the better prayer.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice?

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God... Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you... Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him... Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. Gail Hamilton ,

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1.