Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!

The rich invest; the smart investigate.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.

Love is the unity of two hearts beating together as one.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge, while some others only gargle.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a damned word he says.

Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of Man and the universality of His Kingdom, like no other. It has taught parents that to bring children into the world is not a horrible crime. It has led them to see Christ and His redemption of humanity through all the mists of our teachings and our qualifications. It has explained the nature of His Kingdom to the hearts even of the poorest. Christ has preached at the fonts, when we have been darkening counsel in the pulpits.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.

Leisure is the exultation of the possible.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.