Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed by two mighty tribes - Bores and Bored.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Sports
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy
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Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.
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The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? by
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Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook
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