Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Maybe the hardened clay was not as ugly as I had thought. Maybe what I resented was the color my father had painted me. The time had come to sand away some of that dreadful stain.

Of how much light will my destiny’s eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.