The watchful mother tarries nigh Though sleep have closed her infant's eye, For should he wake, and find her gone.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Give us grace to listen well.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.

It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No doubt he was mentally salting and peppering Don.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.