Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.

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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 There is a pride of faith, more unforgiveable and dangerous than the pride of the intellect. It reveals a split personality in which faith is "observed" and appraised, thus negating that unity born of a dying-unto-self, which is the definition of faith. To "value" faith is to turn it into a metaphysical magic, the advantages of which ought to be reserved for a spiritual elite.

The tools we use have a profound influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.

Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me.

The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.