The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

The great fish the small.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

The Farmer and the Cranes Some cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired, but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice not, blows must follow.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.

People who want by the yard, but try by the inch, should be kicked by the foot !

Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.