The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinks money will help.

every rose has its thorn.

And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown.

Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too careless patient as thou art, Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure Of those physicians that first wounded thee.

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions, than salt water has on thirst.

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.

Better be a fool than a knave.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.