looks like she was hit in the head with a bag of nickles.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.

Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.

And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us and those around us more effectively. Look for the learning.

Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Girls who wear glasses seldom get passes (Ogden Nash).

Save time ... see it my way.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.