What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.

England is the mother of parliaments.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship Him, to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from time to time, in the midst of your business, even every moment if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion; but act with a general confidence in God, with love and humility.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.

Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to believe it with all your heart, to work with all your might, first to make it real to yourself and then to show its preciousness to other men, and then -- not till then, but then -- to leave the questions of when and how and by whom it shall prevail to God: that is the true life of the believer. There is no feeble unconcern and indiscriminateness there, and neither is there any excited hatred of the creed, the doctrine, or the Church, which you feel wholly wrong. You have not fled out of the furnace of bigotry to freeze on the open and desolate plains of indifference. You believe and yet you have no wish to persecute.