Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.

the call of a loon across a quiet lake.

Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean. Then let me go and hinder not my course. I'll be as patient as a gentle stream And make a pastime of each weary step, Till the last step have brought me to my love; And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.

As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts honour than deep wounds before.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth, Help me this once, that France may get the field.

Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.