Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye, Cock of the heath, so wildly shy!

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

I'll put that in my considering cap.

Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.

Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.