All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

Nature's first great title--mind.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

Divine joy is spirit of the journey.

Our Nature is so Beautiful that we come eyes to short if we be on the right place.Jan Jansen

He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.