“Every one can remember that which has interested himself.”

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

Fire is next akin to smoke.

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

No blessing lasts forever.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

See how time makes all grief decay.

I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer.

And being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, ‘Oh, my God. There’s no hiding here.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

The business of church is ultimately people. You’re trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?