And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Give us grace to listen well.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.

The good news is that being in gratitude does not require time and money. All it requires is an attitude of being grateful.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.