Learn from the past Live for today Look for tomorrow Take a nap this afternoon.

The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some master-hand exulting sweeps The keys of some great organ, ye give forth The music of the woodland depths, a hymn Of gladness and of thanks.

I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

When you forgive it takes you from the place of the victim to that of a victor.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

'T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut,--our home.

O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.

That's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for a sex machine.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.