A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

It is the beginning of the end.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

he who laughs last, laughs loudest (or, he who laughs last, last laughs).

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

In His will is our peace.

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury--he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!

The Lion and the Mouse A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor, I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.

What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.