Poems List

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

Seven things characterise the wise man, and seven the blockhead. The wise man speaks not before those who are his superiors, either in age or wisdom. He interrupts not others in the midst of their discourse. He replies not hastily. His questions are relevant to the subject, his answers, to the purpose. In delivering his sentiments he taketh the first in order first, the last, last. What he understands not he says, ?I understand not.? He acknowledges his error, and is open to conviction. The reverse of all this characterises the blockhead.

There but for the grace of God go [I].

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Whosoever does not persecute them that persecute him; whosoever takes an offence in silence; he who does good because of love; he who is cheerful under his sufferings?these are the friends of God, and of them the Scripture says, ?They shall shine forth like the sun at noontide.?

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

If thou lackest knowledge, what hast thou then acquired? Hast thou acquired knowledge, what else dost thou want?