Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

Each of us will be able to see God if we can ignite the spiritual light.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking with Him, listening to Him and learning of His wisdom

The happiest people are not those who have the best things, but those who enjoy the life and get the most of it with what they have.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Hold on to 16 as long as you can.