Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.