A white rosebud for a guerdon.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's grace.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Methods are many,Principles are few.Methods change often,Principles never do.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll, The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep-- Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.