The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

The toes you step on today just might be connected to the ass you kiss tomorrow.

I'm a baaaadd man!!

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

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February eight-and-twenty all alone, And all the rest have thirty-one: Unless that leap-year doth combine, And give to February twenty-nine.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In gangin' thro' the rye, Peer body.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Fostering mother.

Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace... [Continued tomorrow].

Where you're going is more important than where you stand.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Virtue is its own reward.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.