Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.