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

"The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God."

— W. T. Richardson —

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

— Francis Bacon —

"Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness."

— John Climacus —

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed..."

— William Barclay —