After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.

...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

"Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no expectation. But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may happen any hour. And thus to Him any smallest incident was a magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities. A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women being saved.

There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.

In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.