He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.

The journey is the reward.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Add to golden numbers golden numbers.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.

Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

A storm in a cream bowl. - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.