Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire, nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

unwept, unhonored and unsung.

Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?"

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

All sorrows are good with bread.

Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.