The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

Today is the blocks with which we build.