Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.

He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not.

Auribus teneo lupum I have the wolf by the ears

Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house to put her in.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.