For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Young children and chickens would ever be eating.

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

Let's meet and either do or die.

I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

every Tom, Dick and Harry.

We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.