There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

- Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."

- G.K. Chesterton

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---

..Emily Dickinson

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

-Robert Hugh Benson

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes "AWWW!"

- jack kerouac

"For God's sake, you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia."

-Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

(See the Chronicle of Higher Education article.)

Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: “We give thanks to thee for thy great glory.” Need-love says of a woman “I cannot live without her”, Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection – if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"The middle east. Where's that?."
Comment made by one of the neighbours workers.
(I fly out in an hour)

"He who would travel happily must travel light."
-- Antoine de St. Exupery

"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."

-Bunter the Butler, in Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers

"Philosophy is a rehearsal for dying."
- Socrates

Maybe that was what she had meant by safety and sadness: that she and all these creatures with her shared their captivity in a way they could never have shared the wood. That when you are caught in the same trap, you share the same fear of darkness and of walls and you also have the same enemy. You fear the same jailer. You share the dream of freedom -- waiting, all together for the same door to open. You also learn to survive together in ways the uncaged would never think of.

--from Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage

If I put my trust in human beings first, I will end in despairing of everyone; I will become bitter, because I have insisted on man being what no man can ever be - absolutely right. Never trust anything but the grace of God in yourself or anyone else.

Oswald Chambers - May 31 (based on John 2:24-25)

The alternative quote I considered was

"Hannah's wonster is beepin and raarin and loudly!"
The post script from my sisters letter about my neice. Fun.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

-Hilaire Belloc, "On Tea."

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."

- Mark Twain

"Lawnmower season is officially here!"

--Kendra James, on the sudden increase of reconstructive surgeries at her summer placement, The Ottawa Hand Therapy Centre.