Quotemeal for Friday, February 18, 1949

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

— Thomas Jefferson

More Quotemeal

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

— Seneca —

"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."

— John Ruskin —

"Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and..."

— Thomas Merton —