The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.