To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Do you have potatoes growing in your ears?

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes.

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.

High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone!

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light, And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.

For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.

There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.

Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily be counted.