Let the world slide.

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make, Why they lie also--under a mistake.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

Only in America do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

unwept, unhonored and unsung.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.