The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.

The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. . . . . It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent, It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.

If you want to be a leader with a large following, just obey the speed limit on a winding, two-lane road.

Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Even cities have their graves!

The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.