We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.

Take a little rum The less you take the better Pour it in the lakes Of Wener or of Wetter. Dip a spoonful out And mind you don't get groggy, Pour it in the lake Of Winnipissiogie. Stir the mixture well Lest it prove inferior, Then put half a drop Into Lake Superior. Every other day Take a drop in water, You'll be better soon Or at least you oughter.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Duty over desire - may that inspire.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know I've been using it for years.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Feast of Michael & All Angels None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful workings of unbelief, doubtings, carnal fears, murmurings. Thank God one day we will be done forever with "unbelief.".

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

No one can ever defeat the Afghans .

Love is the unity of two hearts beating together as one.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.

But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.