Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Each arrow you shoot offcarries its own targetinto the decidedlysecrettangle

He told her over and over how beautiful she was but, to her, his beauty was beyond any words she would ever be able to speak.

Love does not blind and it can't

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.