To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

O Lord to You we give thanks that in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks.

Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?

Prosperity makes few friends.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, His finger on all flowing waters sweet Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:-- Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow, A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair, Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe. thanks to Mary Larson -Donald Curtis.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!