People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of "May."

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

does ten pounds of dough make a big biscuit?

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.