All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major in the security, and all of that, we should not lose sight of.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.

If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

Justice does not descend from its pinnacle.

Like Theon .

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to his owner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could have made a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial, I know that he will be just the same as the one he chose for his companion. A man is known by the company he keeps.