My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

The man that weds for greedy wealth, He goes a fishing fair, But often times he gets a frog, Or very little share.

Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

He sees only night, and hears only silence.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

Avoid excess.

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics... No form of vice -- not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself -- does more to unChristianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off of childhood -- in short, for sheer, gratuitous misery-producing power -- this influence stands alone.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase,

One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses.