Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx! - Josiah Gilbert Holland ,

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?

Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.