A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.

And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"

To build castles in Spain.

Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life -- a living stone -- is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore To its very core!

Are you showing your Blond?

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.

If there's a power above us, he must delight in virtue.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Fear grows from what we don't know, faith comes from what we do.

All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.