As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

We always crave what we don't have.

I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day.

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.