We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Long on the wave reflected lustres play.

Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

The Farmer and His Sons A father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. -Thomas Carlyle.

Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Rules without relationship equals rebellion.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.