I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene, With armes full strong and largely displayed, But of their leaves they were disarayde The bodie bigge, and mightely pight, Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight; Whilome had bene the king of the field, And mochell mast to the husband did yielde, And with his nuts larded many swine: But now the gray mosse marred his rine; His bared boughes were beaten with stormes, His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes, His honour decayed, his brauches sere.

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.

abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Are you showing your Blond?

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

It's not failure, but low aim is crime.

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.