April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.

Life's a gift, aim for the sky

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly.

May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.