Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.