It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy. You cannot hate someone you don't care about.

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

that's all she wrote!

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand of welcome.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

He is not always at ease who laughs.

Make like the wind and blow out of here.

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.