A little child in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed the offering plates.When they neared the pew where he sat, the youngster piped up so that everyone could hear; "Don't pay for me Daddy, I'm under five.".

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

You're in middle age when you realize you have more on your mind and less on your head.

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backward.

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.

Silence gives consent.

Use it or lose it.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. .

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.