See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.