Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed Incessantly.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

about as exciting as watching paint dry.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.

Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

The key of the fields .

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.