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

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!

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

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.

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.

The source of infinite wisdom in this infinite universe is that you are blessed with infinite love.

I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.