An Austrian army awfully arrayed.

The Piglet, the Sheep, and the Goat A young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.

What is possible is our highest duty.

See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.

Every madman thinks all other men mad.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries; 'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is, But no good girl's lip out of Paris. - Algernon Charles Swinburne,

The Vain Jackdaw Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.

Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamped upon it.

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite That what he will he does, and does so much That proof is called impossibility.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.