Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles of heaven once saw Which North and South do bound, The stars above would make thee known, If men here silent were; The sun himself cannot forget His fellow traveller.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.

The only one who can beat me is me.

. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair, a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Let's sleep on it and talk about it in the morning.