Action is the foundational key to all success.

The homegrown tomato is best .

hear me now, believe me later.

A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.

Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free, The loveliest things that still remain, Than thus remember thee.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274 The Christ of God was not then first crucified when the Jews brought Him to the Cross; but Adam and Eve were His first real murderers; for the death which happened to them in the day when they did eat of the earthly tree was the death of the Christ of God or the divine life in their souls. For Christ had never come into the world as a second Adam to redeem it, had He not been originally the life and perfection and glory of the first Adam.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.

Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.