A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

No mirror keeps its glances.

I asked if you was pleased.’‘Course I’m pleased! You think I’d be mad if I wasn’t pleased?’‘You don’t make a lick of sense, ’ he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.