Why didn't this ever occur to me?  What an excellent idea!

 

I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts--a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?

 

--Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

 

[HT: Christian Quotation of the Day]