A Celebration of God's Grace

Verse is a chalice; place within it only
A stainless thought;
From out whose deeps the smouldering radiance sparkles
Like bubbles in a golden vintage caught.
--José Asunción Silva
Art















Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow,
The world should listen then, as
I am listening now.
--Percy B. Shelley
To a Skylark















You have to ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
--Goethe















Barking dogs don't bite, but they don't know it.
--Sholem Aleichem















All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
--Spinoza
Everyman















Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
--James Thurber
Cartoon Caption















If a suit doesn't fit, it may be because you have grown smaller.
--"The Chofetz Chaim"















Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
--James Thurber
















As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
--Henry David Thoreau
Walden















He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
--Mark Twain
Henry Ward Beecher's Farm















Open my ears to music; let
Me thrill with Spring's first flutes and drums--
But never let me dare forget
The bitter ballads of the slums..
--Louis Untermeyer
Prayer















Wit is the only wall
Between us and the dark.
--Mark Van Doren
Wit















Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
--Daniel Webster
Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument















I don't believe the half I hear,
Nor the quarter of what I see!
But I have one faith, sublime and true,
That noghing can shake or slay;
Each spring I firmly believe anew
All the seed catalogues say!.
--Carolyn Wells