Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

The priest is repairing the church fence. A boy is standing nearby for a long while. The priest asks him: "Do you want to speak with me, my son?" "No, I'm just waiting." "Waiting for what?" "Wanna know what a priest says when he hits his finger with a hammer.".

Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.

There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan, And father and mother and I.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.

You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please.