We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea: But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee!

Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!

When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed: So all for love we paired in Spring-- Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.