On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers.

You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!

Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge." -Faydra D. Fields

Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.

Your medical tests are in. You're short fat and bald.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Love is simply where it is.