What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

We colour the world, Not with the darkness of our pasts, But with the rainbow of our hope.

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

Agency presupposes choice.

Sounds mean nothing without music.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.