obtained a black eye over something(meaning a loss of reputation or respect).

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were, There's none of our employments With fishing can compare. - Thomas Durfee ,

Understanding brings control.

shot at and missed, hit on and hit.

We all know there is blood in meat .

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

You can send a message around the world in 1/7 of a second; yet it may take several years to move a simple idea through a 1/4 inch of human skull.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.