Which Eternity do you prefer? Smoking or Non-Smoking.

The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The mind of a poet begins with an H and ends with a T, listening with an EAR in between.

...place is not big enough for both me and...

The tall Oak, towering to the skies, The fury of the wind defies, From age to age, in virtue strong. Inured to stand, and suffer wrong.

This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.

Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

The gods too are fond of a joke.