The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.

I wasn’t too late. I got there in time. I didn’t lose her.

Nobody is masterless, even ronin enslaved by his sword.

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.