"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."

“Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“I also like men who like dogs. I couldn't date a man who doesn't like my dog.”

Source : "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

“I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.”

“Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.”

“For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit.”

“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn These bringing with them unknown gods and rites Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws In street and alley what strange tongues are loud Accents of menace alien to our air Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well To leave the gates unguarded?”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”