He Who Cannot Rest, Cannot Work; He

Nothing Else Matters Much...not Wealth, Nor Learning, Nor Even Health...without This Gift: The Spiritual Capacity To Keep Zest In Living. This Is The Creed Of Creeds, The Final Deposit And Distillation Of All Important Faiths: That You Should Be Able To Believe In Life.

Some Things Mankind Can Finish And Be Done With, But Not ... Science, That Persists, And Changes From Ancient Chaldeans Studying The Stars To A New Telescope With A 200-inch Reflector And Beyond; Not Religion, That Persists, And Changes From Old Credulities And World Views To New Thoughts Of God And Larger Apprehensions Of His Meaning.

Hating People Is Like Burning Down Your Own House To Get Rid Of A Rat.

The Most Extraordinary Thing About The Oyster Is This. Irritations Set Into His Shell. He Does Not Like Them. But When He Cannot Get Ride Of Them, He Uses The Irritation To Do The Loveliest Thing An Oyster Ever Has A Chance To Do. If There Are Irritations In Our Lives Today, There Is Only One Prescription: Make A Pearl. It May Have To Be A Pearl Of Patience, But Anyhow, Make A Pearl. And It Takes Faith And I Love To Do It.

The Sea Of Galilee And The Dead Sea Are Made Of The Same Water. It Flows Down, Clean And Cool, From The Heights Of Herman And The Roots Of The Cedars Of Lebanon. The Sea Of Galilee Makes Beauty Of It, The Sea Of Galilee Has An Outlet. It Gets To Give. It Gathers In Its Riches That It May Pour Them Out Again To Fertilize The Jordan Plain. But The Dead Sea With The Same Water Makes Horror. For The Dead Sea Has No Outlet. It Gets To Keep.