Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.

Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw, With graceless toil of beak and added claw, The meagre food that scarce thy want allays! And this--to gratify the gloating gaze Of fools, who value Nature not a straw, But know to prize the infraction of her law An hard perversion of her creatures' ways! Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired, Where notes of liquid utterance should engage Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns. - Julian C.H. Fane,

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.

Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.

It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose that all sick men desire to be restored to perfect health; yet experience shows us, that nothing wants more to be pressed, repeated, and forced upon our minds, than the plainest rules of Christianity.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Whenever an armed forces pilot is involved in an aircraft accident, he is required to make a statement of the cause. One young pilot summed up his mishap thus: "I believe the cause of the accident was administrative. I should never have graduated from flight school.".

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.