No vacation goes unpunished.

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Animis opibusque parati

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Reputation is made in a moment: character is built in a lifetime.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.

Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, Where wide the storms their banners fling, And the tempest clouds are driven.

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]