Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

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.

Graciously honor the freedom at which Christmas so peacefully - came into being.

His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Just charge me with the usual.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.