O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.

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.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

The church exists for the sake of those outside it.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

Good is always a good thing.

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?