I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiestâthen we can all die laughing.
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve, Then is the day of crumbling not far off.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Worryâa God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee, In secret, in silence, and tears.
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.