Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing. To wander along by the wind-beaten hill. But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.

Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.

Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.

The sun also shines on the wicked.