Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

The holes in my jeans ans the holes in my boots make me whole!

The greatest joy in life comes not from winning but from giving.

Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning.

People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.