Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

Love ~ Truth ~ Freedom are three words that mean the same, and none may exist without the other present.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.