Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
In our Nation, approximately 22. 5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.
Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.