O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,-- Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

To him that watches, everything is revealed.