Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Not our activity for Him but our captivity to Him!

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 One might think that, with the Bible as the center of Christianity, the unity of Christians could be easily realized. But unfortunately this has not proved true, though we can consider it fortunate indeed that, as this inability to unify proves, the letter of the Bible cannot really replace the living Christ as the center of our faith. The Bible is the expression of the life and work of God, and since life is greater than its expression, it cannot be expressed completely in any logical or theological form. Therefore, the Bible itself cannot escape being understood in many different ways. Thus we see how in the wisdom of God it is impossible in practice to make the Scriptures the end or final authority to those who live in fellowship with the Spirit.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself!

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity, My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.