To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.

He will find a way.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total misunderstanding. The whole Bible proclaims the need for, and the achievement of, a salvation that will remake creation, and it is just such a salvation, at once supernatural and historical, that was won on Easter Day. If the Resurrection narratives are [merely] a subtle way of convincing us that God still loves us, or that there is a life beyond death, they must be reckoned among the oddest and most ill-conceived stories ever written.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Don't count your eggs before they've hatched.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.