The Navy is very old and very wise.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.