Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers-- "Where?"

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

Always count the cost.

Going beyond is as bad as falling short.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. Rrelating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run. - Ebenezer Elliott ,

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell-- Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!