I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue.

A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.

People generally quarrel because they can't argue.

Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about.

How he in peace is wounded, not in war.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.

The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.

England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.