The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need Of aid from them--she was the Universe.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

Ability is what you're capable of doing...Motivation determines what you do...Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

The man that weds for greedy wealth, He goes a fishing fair, But often times he gets a frog, Or very little share.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Weak and imperfect men shall, notwithstanding their frailties and effects, be received as having pleased God, if they have done their utmost to please Him.

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.

Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which in the East was performed by the complete immersion of the believer in water. "We were buried with Christ through our baptism (and so entered) into a state of death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the splendor of the Father, we too might walk in the newness which belongs to (real) life." To the rite as such Paul did not attach overwhelming importance. "Christ", he says, "did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel." Paul recognized in the idea a most suggestive figure for the change wrought by faith in Christ. He found it necessary to guard against the crude sacramentalism which found in the mere physical process, as such, the actual impartation of new life, quite apart from anything taking place in the realm of inward experience. The Israelites in the wilderness ... received baptism in the Red Sea and in the cloud which overshadowed them; and yet they were disobedient, "the majority of them God did not choose," and they perished miserably. The inference is plain. No sacramental act achieves anything unless it is an outward symbol of what really happens inwardly in experience. The test of that is the reality of the new life as exhibited in its ethical consequences. "How can we who are dead to sin live any longer in sin?" If baptism is a real dying and rising again, then it is indeed a profound revolution in the personal life, a revolution which is simply bound to show itself in a new moral character.