The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth, Help me this once, that France may get the field.

I am sorry I offended you - I should have lied.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but man only.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955 There is no wrath that stands between God and us, but what is awakened in the dark fire of our own fallen nature; and to quench this wrath, and not His own, God gave His only begotten Son to be made man. God has no more wrath in Himself now than He had before the creation, when He had only Himself to love... And it was solely to quench this wrath, awakened in the human soul, that the blood of the Son of God was necessary; because nothing but a life and birth, derived from Him into the human soul, could change this darkened root of a self-tormenting fire into an amiable image of the Holy Trinity as it was at first created.