Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. -Justice Learned Hand.

There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155 We may search so far, and reason so long of faith and grace, as that we may lose not only them, but even our reason too, and sooner become mad than good. Not that we are bound to believe any thing against reason, that is, to believe, we know not why. It is but a slack opinion, it is not Belief, that is not grounded upon Reason. It is true, we have not a Demonstration; not such an Evidence as that one and two are three, to prove these to be Scriptures of God; God hath not proceeded in that manner, to drive our reason into a pound, and to force it by a peremptory necessity to accept these for Scriptures, for then, here had been no exercise of our Will, and our assent, if we could not have resisted.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.