I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

Things do not change; we change.

A budget is something we go without to stay within.

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God's divine action, but to be its object; not to learn what it has achieved throughout the centuries and still does, but simply to be the subject of its operation.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Our commander said the Viet Cong are farmers by day.. guerillas by night. Look for those who are tired. So anyone who yawned was getting popped.

Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.