You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies, Til the dappled dawn doth rise.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
Calculation never made a hero.
Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
God is love.
Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.
Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
Life has no romance without risk.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
The "good old times"-all times, when old, are good.
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.