Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

We want to evolve; like the Stones.

My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.