Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.

The Light that Failed.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.

Anger manages everything badly.

"If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."

The words walked right out of my mouth.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. .

The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close and near approaches unto them -- gives them a sense of His eternal love, a taste of the embraces of His Son and the inhabitation of the Spirit, without the least intervening disturbance; and then this is their assurance. But this life is not a season to be always taking wages in; our work is not yet done; we are not always to abide in this mount; we must down again into the battle -- fight again, cry again, complain again. Shall the soul be thought now to have lost its assurance? Not at all. It had before assurance with joy, triumph, and exultation; it hath it now, or may have, with wrestling, cries, tears, and supplications. And a man's assurance may be as good, as true, when he lies on the earth with a sense of sin, as when he is carried up to the third heaven with a sense of love and foretaste of glory.