Quotemeal for Sunday, June 1, 2008

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

— Edgar Watson Howe

More Quotemeal

"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."

— G. K. Chesterton —

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is...."

— Hazlitt —

"If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?"

— Thomas à Kempis —

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about..."

— Francois de Sales —