I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.