The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.