Come, come! Let us go to breakfast. The morning air has given me a rude appetite. I long to say grace over a fresh egg… – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating. – Edward Everett Hale, “How to Get the Best of It,” c.1892
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. – Karl Rahner