The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Serve Locally - Pray Globally.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.