Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.