Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth, inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

get a kick (out of something).

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

The closest distance between two people is a good laugh.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Laugh till you cry.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.