Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.