Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving...
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...
I knew however that the next morning after the fight I would have to get...
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was...
Secretary of State Colin Powell thank you so much as always for joining us...
I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I...
It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days...
Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing because I talk...
I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that...
When I was twelve I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was...
Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air...