Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.