Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.