A full mind is an empty bat.

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing. The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. Thy love is insuperable when nothing may overcome it, that is, neither weal, nor woe, nor anguish, just of flesh nor the liking of this world... Thy love is inseparable when all thy thoughts and thy wills are gathered together and fastened wholly in Jesus Christ, so that thou mayest no time forget Him, but aye thou thinkest on Him... Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

When in doubt, win the trick.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.

Sign at a crematorium: Urn more. Pay less.

My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures .

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: Break Thou the bread of life, Dear Lord, to me, As Thou didst break the loaves Beside the sea; Beyond the sacred page I seek Thee, Lord; My spirit pants for Thee, O living word! Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord, To me, to me, As Thou didst bless the bread By Galilee; Then shall all bondage cease, All fetters fall; And I shall find my peace, My All-in-All.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.