Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

I do not laugh

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Develop The Grit To be great.

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

No one know what he can do till he tries.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.