One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him.

Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Art is long, but life is fleeting.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.