Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.

One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come! To us a Child is born, To us a Son is given; Bless, bless the blessed morn! O happy, lowly lofty birth, Now God, our God, has come to earth! Rejoice, our God has come! In love and lowliness; The Son of God has come The sons of men to bless. God with us now descend to dwell, God in our flesh, Immanuel. Praise ye the word made flesh! True God, true man is He. Praise ye the Christ of God! To Him all glory be. Praise ye the Lamb that once was slain, Praise ye the king that comes to reign.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.