People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

It is money makes the mare to trot.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

There is a sad end I used to liveeven before I knewthis is how I was meant to begin.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.