Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

Learn to think continentally.

The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold To catch the sunshine and the dew.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart is in this method of prayer; never beginning to pray, till you first see how matters stand with you; asking your heart what it wants, and having nothing in your prayers, but what the known state of your heart puts you upon demanding, saying, or offering, unto God. A quarter of an hour of this prayer, brings you out of your closet a new man; your heart feels the good of it; and every return of such a prayer, gives new life and growth to all your virtues, with more certainty, than the dew refreshes the herbs of the field: whereas, overlooking this true prayer of your own heart, and only at certain times taking a prayer that you find in a book, you have nothing to wonder at, if you are every day praying, and yet every day sinking further and further under all your infirmities. [Continued tomorrow].

Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.

Jove, thou regent of the skies.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.

As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne, Leaves off, against his placid wish, Impaling worms to torture fish.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.