It is better to receive than to do an injury.

Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.

The poor cows froze neglected in a blizzard They dug them up and ate their gizzards.

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

The best is the cheapest.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God... is fattening and feeding the children of perdition. I pray God, I may never find my will again.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty, they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

I'm from Missouri; you must show me.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.

Lawyer.