Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.

Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation It seems to me that testimonies should once again become a part of the life of our churches. I have not made a study of why the testimony fell into disrepute and was discarded, but I suspect these were three of the factors: (1) The same persons gave the testimony every time. (2) They gave the same testimony every time. (3) The testimony they gave was about something that happened ten, or twenty, or thirty years before.

Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array, Presiding spirit here to-day, Dost lead the revels of the May; And this is thy dominion.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.

To warm their little loves the birds complain.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears Were like, a better way: those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.