Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

My soul I'll pour into thee.

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.