They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour In field and woodland, and each punctual flower Bows at the signal an obedient head And hastens to bed.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.

President means chief servant.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Bread is the staff of life.

The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim, As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

I feel like a rat in a cage.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.

Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.