Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.

Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.

Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day; All the air is cool and still, From the elm-tree on the hill, Chant away: . . . . Let thy loud and welcome lay Pour alway Few notes but strong.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

"God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.

Things orbidden have a secret charm.

File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

When all is done, there is no such error or heresy, nothing so fundamentally opposed to religion, as a wicked life.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.