Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

That government is best which governs least.

Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

don't worry, be happy.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Prolifers support warwaging candidates whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it.

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

-Duke.

EPIPHANY What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter! The faith that limits itself to the promises of God seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child -- good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith. Those who rest in such a faith would feel yet more comfortable if they had God's bond instead of His word, which they regard not as the outcome of His character but as a pledge of His honour. They try to believe in the truth of His word, but the truth of His Being they understand not. In His oath they persuade themselves that they put confidence: in himself they do not believe, for they know Him not.

Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.