Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. - Thomas Tusser,

Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day, Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest, 'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay; While round his couch's golden rim The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept-- Struggling each other's light to dim, And catch his last smile e'er he slept.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

Good, better, best. Never rest Until good be better And better best.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Artes, scientia, veritas

-Gon.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.