Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

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.

I wanted to fall

To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.