Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.

Victory begins with the name of Jesus on our lips, but it will not be consummated until the nature of Jesus is in our hearts.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Pansies for ladies all--.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Crescit eundo

Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.