Blessed are they who know their own limitations, for they shall have joy in the a ccomplishment

of others. -Arthur Hartmann, Violin Mastery, Chapter 6. Truth is always simple. If it seems difficult it is due to our clumsy way of stating it. -D. A. Clippinger, The Head Voice and Other Problems. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. -Gor e Vidal And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. -Earl Mac Rauch Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produc ed the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us t o exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. Victor Hugo There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the e nemy. -George Washington Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson , Representative Men, Uses of Great Men. A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy br ingeth men's minds to religion. -Francis Bacon As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconis m can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a li ttle room. -Jeremy Collier Spite of Lavater, faces are oftentimes great lies. They are the paper money of s ociety, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the human coffer. -F.G. Trafford People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances. -Jeremy Col lier Truth, on these subjects, is militant, and can only establish itself by means of conflict. The most opposite opinions can make a plausible show of evidence whil e each has the statement of its own case; and it is only possible to ascertain w hich of them is in the right, after hearing and comparing what each can say agai nst the other, and what the other can urge in its defence. -John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic. The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts; the communicati on of those thoughts to others falls under the consideration of Rhetoric . . . -John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic. But we may fancy that we see or feel what we in reality infer. Newton saw the tr uth of many propositions of geometry without reading the demonstrations, but not , we may be sure, without their flashing through his mind. A truth, or supposed truth, which is really the result of a very rapid inference, may seem to be appr ehended intuitively. It has long been agreed by thinkers of the most opposite sc hools, that this mistake is actually made in so familiar an instance as that of the eyesight. There is nothing of which we appear to ourselves to be more direct ly conscious, than the distance of an object from us. Yet it has long been ascer tained, that what is perceived by the eye, is at most nothing more than a variou sly coloured surface; that when we fancy we see distance, all we really see is c ertain variations of apparent size, and degrees of faintness of colour; and that our estimate of the object's distance from us is the result of a comparison (ma de with so much rapidity that we are unconscious of making it) between the size and colour of the object as they appear at the time, and the size and colour of the same or of similar objects as they appeared when close at hand, or when thei r degree of remoteness was known by other evidence. The perception of distance b y the eye, which seems so like intuition, is thus, in reality, an inference grou nded on experience; an inference, too, which we learn to make; and which we make with more and more correctness as our experience increases; though in familiar cases it takes place, so rapidly as to appear exactly on a par with those percep tions of sight which are really intuitive, our perceptions of colour. -John Stu art Mill, A System of Logic. The province of logic must be restricted to that portion of our knowledge which consists of inferences from truths previously known; whether those antecedent da ta be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence. In so far as

belief professes to be founded on proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for ascertaining whether or not the belief is well grounded. With the claims wh ich any proposition has to belief on the evidence of consciousness, that is, wit hout evidence in the proper sense of the word, logic has nothing to do. -John S tuart Mill, A System of Logic. I value books for their suggestiveness even more than for the information they m ay contain, works that may be taken in hand and laid aside, read at moments, con taining sentences that quicken my thoughts and prompt to following these into th eir relations with life and things. -Amos Bronson Alcott, Table-talk. Life and literature need the inspiration which idealism quickens and promotes, t he history of thought showing that a people given over to sensationalism and the lower forms of materialism have run to ruin. -Amos Bronson Alcott, Table-talk. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -Jacques Maritain, Reflectio ns on America, 1958. Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderst ood. -William Howard Taft God does not hear us because we are in earnest, but only on the ground of Redemp tion. God is never impressed by our earnestness. Prayer is not simply getting th ings from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into per fect communion with God. -Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 16th reading. Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. -Unknown People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite des ires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capaci ty and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire. -Billy Graham, Day by Day With Billy Graham, 1976. Get Christ and go to heaven. -John Bunyan What have we our time and strength for, but to lay them out for God? What is a c andle made for, but to burn? Burned and wasted we must be; and is it not fitter it should be in lighting men to heaven, and in working for God, than in living t o the flesh? -Richard Baxter