His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

They are immobile and voiceless, and cannot ask for the mercy of water, those trapped caged house plants. In the winter they feel no breeze nor are they touched by a hand which frees.

Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,-- Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

What's well begun, is half done.

I came up-stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

should have printed what he meant, not what he said.

Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

she's quite a ONE !

Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.