The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

A storm in a cream bowl. - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!

Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer; Stolen looks are nice in chapels: Stolen, stolen be your apples.

Has death his fopperies?

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability . It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

President means chief servant.

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Past and to come seems best; things present worst. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.