My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

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!

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

A need for many candles may arise in every nation’s history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

Never scorn a woman. They get violent.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.