The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!

In the beginning was the image.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements