There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.

It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh, Twain by twain we marry One by one we die.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Happiness is an inside job.

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -Dennis Fakes.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 If there were a righteousness which a man could have of his own, then we should have to concern ourselves with the question of how it can be imparted to him. But there is not. The idea of a righteousness of one's own is the quintessence of sin.