A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.

I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

The Astronomer An astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in which marine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.

You can't get there from here.

The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa. On the summit of the lodges Sang the robin, the Opechee.