Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.

Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

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.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.

If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at aw, There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. William Julius Mickle,

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

The way to the heart is through the ears. Thanks to John Travis -Katie Hurley.