Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.

If you have to ask, you can't afford it!

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

A person lives, to be loved.A person loves, to have lived.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.

He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay With us was short, and 'twas most meet, That he should be no delver in earth's clod, Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet To stand before his God: O blest word--Evermore!

Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.