Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

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.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

These eggs are broken. Cracked.""Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes.""Does it?""Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

Discrimination is a disease.