Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls: He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy. Hope makes all things work.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt.