Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. - John Lyly ,

I had dreams and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.

He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.