But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

Detoxify your thought and be free

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

Today we charge George Zimmerman with murder in the second-degree.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.