"One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil."

“To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.”

Source : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.47

“There are optical illusions in time as well as space.”

“If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.”

Source : "Mrs Dymond". Book by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, 1885.

“Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.”

“The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.”

“That's where faith comes in. I've struggled more with being away from her. She keeps me strong. Being away from her means I have to stay in the Word and to stay strong throughout the season.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

“A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.”

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”