Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.