The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.