The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis when he says [of the doctrine of the Final Judgment], "There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power". But we cannot do so, for two reasons: first, because it enjoys the full support of Christ's own teaching; and second, because it makes a good deal of sense. If the gospel is extended to us for our acceptance, it must be possible also to reject and refuse it. The alternative would be for God to compel an affirmative response. It would be nice to be able to say that all will be saved, but the question arises, Does everyone want to be saved? What would love for God be like if it were coerced? There is a hell because God respects our freedom and takes our decisions seriously -- more seriously, perhaps, than we would sometimes wish. God wants to see hell completely empty; but if it is not, He cannot be blamed. The door is locked only on the inside. It is not Christians but the unrepentant who "want" it [to be locked].

A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.

Philosopy is the most important thing in life. Everything else is born from there. Sean Baltz.

Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?".