Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

Women know The way to rear up children ; They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles.

Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 It was not the pleasant things in the world that came from the devil, and the dreary things from God! It was "sin brought death into the world and all our woe"; as the sin vanishes the woe will vanish too. God Himself is the ever-blessed God. He dwells in the light of joy as well as of purity, and instead of becoming more like Him as we become more miserable, and as all the brightness and glory of life are extinguished, we become more like God as our blessedness becomes more complete. The great Christian graces are radiant with happiness. Faith, hope, charity, there is no sadness in them; and if penitence makes the heart sad, penitence belongs to the sinner, not to the saint.

They laboriously do nothing.

What does that have to do with the price of eggs?

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

Agriculture and Commerce

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

The grave's the market place.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.

Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.