Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

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O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame, Sprung from that beauty which can never fade; How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name, And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made, While mortal love doth all the title gain! Which siding with invention, they together Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain (Thy workmanship), and give thee share in neither. Wit fancies beauty, beauty raiseth wit: The world is theirs; they two play out the game, Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise? only a scarf or glove Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he liveth, whithersoever he goeth, even as Thy glance never quitteth any.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.