Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
Ez for war, I call it murder, - There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
Earth's noblest thing, a Woman perfected.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future. Behind the dim unknown stands God, Within the shadow keeping watch above his own.
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
