The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Lost time is never found again.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
. . . animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
I feel like blue jeans are kind of too 'country' for me.
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.