Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

It's easy to be an educated fool.