Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Education aims at solving problems, but some educators are problems to be solved

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.