Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.

Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he Yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, Green the grass-lawn stretched before them While the apple blossoms white Hung in rich profusion o'er them.

Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.

In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . . I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.