The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

It is money makes the mare to trot.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

No more sounds emerged as he walked through the forest, save the whisper of the leaves above. Though nothing further appeared out of the ordinary, he knew one thing for certain. He was not alone.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.