The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and undernourishment.

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

My goose is cooked.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

One real world is enough.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures .

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.

Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

It is Hebrew to me.