Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. .

Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century Pentecost From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

hair today - gone tomarrow.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.