Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

Come, my coach! Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,-- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in!

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.

Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.

The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless price God will provide for sacrifice. The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves -- a road To bring us daily nearer God.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took--the same as me.

For most men Will back their own opinion is by a wager.

Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.