Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

God will pardon: That's His business.