Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past."

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through Under the Andes to the Cape, Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.

There's no substitute for guts.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. .

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

When computers are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines , essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.