They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad
No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love. "
Work without contemplation is never enough.
The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.