Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

No one wants advice only corroboration. The Winter of Our Discontent.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Are you showing your Blond?

There is no such thing as a good tax.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Why me? Why is it always me?

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

if given a shaft, make a car.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.