Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.

He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign.

There be of them that have left a name behind them.

You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.

The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Who is the boss around here anyway?

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -ALBERT SCHWEITZER.

"The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand; So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days, When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways; When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago-- The Washingtons and Jeffersons, you know.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.