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I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.

The voice of the world .

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.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.

To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.

Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

God is like a skilful Geometrician.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.