For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
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Silence is more musical than any song.
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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
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Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
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Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away.
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