Youth passes like a dream.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

Cats will always lie soft.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.