Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Recipe; a series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat.

it wasn't the caughing that carried him off, it was the coffin they carried him off in.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of wardrying in the sun.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who compromise life on behalf of souls, for which Christ died. Whenever, by exertion in any unselfish cause, health is broken or fortune impaired, or influential friends estranged, the follower of Christ is called an enthusiast, a fanatic, or even more plainly a man of unsound mind. He may be comforted by remembering that Jesus was said to be beside Himself when teaching and healing left Him not leisure even to eat.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?

In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.

Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness to Our Lord, for the good of other souls, and then you have practiced intercession. Never mind if it all seems for the time very second-hand. The less you get out of it, the nearer it approaches to being something worth offering; and the humiliation of not being able to feel as devout as we want to be, is excellent for most of us. Use vocal prayer... very slowly, trying to realize the meaning with which it is charged and remember that... you are only a unit in the Chorus of the Church, so that the others will make good the shortcomings you cannot help.