If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

We have nothing to offer you.. say the cows of their gravy.. but our blood, sweat, and tears. .

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your doubt runneth high-- North points to the needle!