There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its membersFrom its own ashes, but without the bloom, With...
Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.
Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander's banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men's...
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
One if by land, two if by sea.
The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.