There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".