Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.

He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.

I don't really trust a sane person.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a definite task to perform for the community, that he may know in hours of doubt that he, too, is not useless and unusable. Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Faults are thick when love is thin.

Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails; I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whichever side prevails.

A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.