Poems List

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

When thou utterest not a word thou hast laid thy hand upon it; when thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand on thee.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

Careful with fire" is good advice we know.

Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power without purpose is mere fatuity.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.

Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others.

Accurate scholarship can

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

Let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become friends thou shouldst not be ashamed.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander.