Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction. Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child with her cloth, cover thou him.

The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition Hath been most sound.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

It shines like a diamond in a goats ass!

'Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, perhaps, because of the tendency in His children to word-worship, false logic, and corruption of the truth, but because He would not have them oppressed by words, seeing that words, being human, and therefore but partially capable, could not absolutely contain or express what the Lord meant, and that even He must depend for being understood upon the spirit of His disciple. Seeing that it could not give life, the letter should not be throned with power to kill.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din.

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have borne more welcome news.

Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.