Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.

Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.

Young people need models, not critics...

Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.