Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow, From a fore-spent night of sorrow.

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In gangin' thro' the rye, Peer body.

Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance; The field, the forest, green and gay; The dappled slope, the tedded hay; Sees the reddening orchard blow, The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small stuff.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the unexpected soon Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard, A sinner does the task you should assume, A leper who is cleansed must show his proof: Suddenly you see your very roof remove And a cripple clutters up your living-room. There's no telling what to expect when Christ Walks in the door. The table set for four Must often be enlarged, and decorum Thrown to the winds. It's His voice that calls them, And it's no use to bolt and bar the door: His kingdom knows no bounds of roof, of wall or floor.

Great minds ... discuss ideas. Average minds ... discuss events. Small minds ... discuss people.

Prologues like compliments are loss of time, 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.

For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.