Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

Murphy's Law isn't recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.

Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155 There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Those with the best advice usually offer no advice.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.

His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed. She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust, And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed; Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.

has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

shot at and missed, hit on and hit.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.