Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! . . . . All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.

Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love: when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude, in which he serves others voluntarily and for naught; himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and richness of his own faith.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.