The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day. '
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.
Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
We live not to ourselves, our work is life.
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis. . . Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.