It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. - From a College Window.

Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you'll find a nut.

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.