While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.