We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!