I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
The busy have no time for tears.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
