Hero

“And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.”

--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Motto

Purificatus non consumptus (Purified, not consumed)

--crest of the Washbourne family, and of Washburn University where I am currently a student in Legal Studies

In Caritate Non Ficta: Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette

In Caritate Non Ficta: Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas Day)

"An old man was carrying a Child;  but the Child was the old man's Lord."

-Saint Augustine, from the Mass of February 2 

Be swift to love

"Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind."

--Henri Frederic Amiel

The level of womanhood

To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

-- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

The road must be trod

"The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."

--J.R.R. Tolkien