Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

The Swallow and the Crow The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter. Fair weather friends are not worth much.

When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.

Some tribes have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.

And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?