I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.

Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone.

He wakes a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.

Honor lies in honest toil.

We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.