And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.

It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.

A good friend see the first tear, catches the second and stops the third.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

The dodgerest of all the dodgers.

When confronted with a Goliath-sized problem, which way do you respond: "He's too big to hit" or like David, "He's to big to miss"?

Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified; Not this way went the Crucified;) From all that dims Thy Calvary, 0 Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!

Dirigo

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.

A cheerful heart is good medicine.

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.

There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough.