It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.

Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Concluding a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had come, and that he, Jesus, was its herald and expounder to men. More than that, in some special and mysterious was, he was the kingdom.

The thing I fear most is fear.

A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us. We may be sorry and embarrassed that we have not more to bring -- and rightly so; but that is not reason for failing or refusing to bring what we have and what we are. Little is always much in the hands of Christ.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.

The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.

Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.