To be sensible of our corruption and abhor our own transgressions is the first symptom of spiritual health.-J. C. Ryle

Keep your lamp burning, and let God place it where He will.-Unknown


Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.-Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745


When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.-Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745


Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.-Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745


Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because he that would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, will convince others the more, as he appears convinced himself.-Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745


The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.-Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745


The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.-Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745