Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I have not yet begun to fight!

The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl will wear.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. .

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

I slept like a baby, I woke up and cried every two hours.

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274 In addition to the general situations in which men find themselves today, there are those things in personal life which have always tested faith: the inexplicable tragedies and injustices; the suffering of innocent people, especially of children; the seeming uselessness of prayer, and so forth. It is surely life itself that makes against belief in most cases. It is the contradiction in real life between any image of God as good -- whether God is "above", "beneath", or "within" -- that makes men atheists. Yet how few books and how few sermons touch on this basic problem! Our theological libraries are crammed with books devoted to every aspect of textual and higher criticism of the Bible; but of genuine theological thinking about the things which drive religion from men's hearts, there is appallingly little to be found. The archaeology of Christian origins seems largely to have replaced genuine theology.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

By learning to obey, you will know how to command.

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page, I'd give--though it might seem bold-- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?