Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."

A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

True repentance is to cease from sinning.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Don't know which way to turn.

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

it keeps me from the street.

An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd.

A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings.

Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.

If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to find their clothes after a game