the train rolls by the cows grazing in the meadows .. and they hear the moos the frightened cries of their fellows captive in the cars.

A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings.

A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

An Austrian army awfully arrayed.

Close enough for government work.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

A flea in his ear.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.