Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

"He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Expect people to do better than they are..it helps them to become better; but, don't be disappointed when they are not- it helps them to keep trying.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified; they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only to be snatched away by an invisible hand patiently waiting for the hour when the cup is sweetest; they are given to us that we may grow, alike through their rise or their withdrawal. They are real, they are sweet, and they are worthy of our longing for them; we gain nothing by calling them dross, or the world an illusion, or ourselves the victims of deception, or by exalting renunciation as the highest virtue. When these opportunities are denied us, it is a real, not an imaginary, loss which we sustain; and our part is not that of bare renunciation, of simple surrender; our part is to recognize the loss, to bear the pain, and to find a deeper and richer life in doing the will of God.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Lovers face to face, friends side by side.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.