You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.
Thoughts of the girl crashed around his mind, made him remember the connection he felt. A sadness washed over him, as if he missed her, wanted to see her. That doesn't make sense, he thought. I don't even know her name.