We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

Instinct is untaught ability.

With renunciation life begins.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.