Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Little pitchers have wide ears.
A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
Time wasted is a theft from God.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is, perhaps, cowardice.
Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring."
A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow.
I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.