To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price. I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709 In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.

, Self Empowerment Self-empowerment - that's learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself. -Doc Childre.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.

A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore, now.

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.