He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black, So long was his tail, and so glossy his back, That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs, And only just left them to stretch her poor legs, And pick for a minute the worm she preferred, Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 People naturally do not shout it out, least of all into the ears of us ministers; but let us not be deceived by their silence. Blood and tears, deepest despair and highest hope, a passionate longing to lay hold of ... Him who overcomes the world because He is its Creator and Redeemer, its beginning and ending and lord -- a passionate longing to have the word spoken, the word which promises grace in judgment, life in death, and the beyond in the here and now, God's word -- this it is that animates our church-goers.

I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.

He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Only boring people get bored.