Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring! Winning eye and heart completely, Sing, robin, sing! All among the reeds and rushes, Where the brook its music hushes, Bright the caloposon blushes,__ Laugh, O murmuring Spring!

The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped; But I had not so much of man in me, And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate, still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.

As large as life, and twice as natural.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between The one and the other, a sea;-- Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!

Individuality is freedom lived.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.

The "why" is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.