All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy thing You find you haven't got it.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.

We are fastened to a dying animal.