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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
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This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.
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I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
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The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking.
