It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

See where she comes, apparelled like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king Of every virtue gives renown to men!

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law of Moses to the order of creation. While, therefore, the Law of Moses is from one aspect the first stage of revelation, leading up to the Law of Christ, in another aspect it is a temporary expedient on the way from the Law of Nature to the Law of Christ, serving certain limited purposes, which fulfilled, it may be set aside, leaving mankind in Christ confronted by the original law of his creation.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law And who can never love from charity?

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay With us was short, and 'twas most meet, That he should be no delver in earth's clod, Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet To stand before his God: O blest word--Evermore!