A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.

Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.