Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait, the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- That is light grieving!

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.

Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.

But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century Pentecost From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 All love in general hath an assimilating efficacy; it casts the mind into the mould of the thing beloved... Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring.

He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.