There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.

Dig yourself out of a hole.

Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.

You can't kill a prion. Longest on air personality in US about the molecules of Mad Cow.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. - Richard Crashaw,

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 The man who will and can go to our Lord in all freedom... must be such that his love for the Sacrament and for our Lord grows more and more by this [Holy Communion], and that the reverence is not diminished by frequently approaching it. For often what is one man's life may be another's death. Therefore you should observe yourself, whether your love for God is growing and your reverence is not destroyed. Then, the more frequently you go to the Sacrament, the better you will become, and the better and more profitable it will be. And therefore be not turned away from your God by words and sermons.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Been there... done that.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.