Scratch a lover, and find a foe. There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free. Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. Bad manners make a journalist. People do not deserve to have good writings they are so pleased with the bad. What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure. A man is known by the company he organizes. Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry? Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. God is a verb.