There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.

I don't really trust a sane person.

Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!

Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.

In every parting there is an image of death.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is revelation. Its seers and prophets are not men of philosophic mind, who have risen from the seen to the unseen and, by dint of much reflection, have gradually attained to elevated conceptions of Him who is the Author of all that is. They are men of God whom God has chosen, that He might speak to them and, through them, to His people. Israel has not, in and by them, created for itself a God: God has, through them, created for Himself a people.

A teacher asked her students if they could use the words 'defeat, defense, and detail' in a sentence. Little Johnny was a smartly, so he answered with, " De feet of de dog went over de fence before de tail.".

In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

My goose is cooked.

A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.