Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.
Progress means taking risks for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
In the morning prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
Thirty days hath September April June and November All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight in fine Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Place on your hand a turquoise blue Success will bless what'er you do.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult but to the adult in the child.
Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection or too fresh the grudge.
When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going when he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.
History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.
I was hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: I was naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye ca...
Books and friends should be few but good.