None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Well, I'll be John Brown! (southern cliche).

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.

I am better off alone.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us and those around us more effectively. Look for the learning.

Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.