Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!