If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day.

If there's a power above us, he must delight in virtue.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.

There is a technical meteorological term for a sunny, warm day which follows two rainy days. It's called a "Monday.".

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.

Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.