Boast during the day; be humble at night.

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

If your ship doesn't come in, you have to row out to meet it.

Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.

Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 Commemoration of John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, Inspirer of Renewal, 1963 The Gospel leaves men, unless upon extraordinary occasions, their names, their reputations, their wealth and honors, if lawfully obtained and possessed; but the league that is between the mind and these things in all natural men must be broken. They must be no longer looked upon as the chiefest good or in the place thereof.

Patience means self-suffering.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not; For where I am I would not be, And where I would be I can not.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

All men of one metal, but not in one mold.

Beautiful. .

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.

Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.