Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize. A cup to the dead already,-- Hurrah for the next that dies.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Spirit divine, attend our prayers. And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious powers; O come, great spirit, come! Come as the light; to us reveal Our emptiness and woe; And lead us in the paths of life Where all the righteous go. Come as the wind: sweep clean away What dead within us lies, And search and freshen all our souls With living energies. Come as the fire: and purge our hearts Like sacrificial flame; Let our whole soul as offering be To our redeemer's name. Spirit divine, attend our prayers, Make a lost world thy home; Descend with all thy gracious powers: O come, great Spirit, come!

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

Study to be what you wish to seem.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.