The woods are always empty if you're a poor hunter.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. -Brandan Behan.

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

"O fateful flower beside the rill-- The Daffodil, the daffodil!"

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

The Fox and the Monkey A monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him their King. A Fox, envying him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading the Monkey to the place where it was, said that she had found a store, but had not used it, she had kept it for him as treasure trove of his kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it. The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap, and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?

That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king.

...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest.

Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star.

There are too many mediocre things to deal with.Love shouldn't be one of them.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.