There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

We will either find a way, or make one.

The Farmer and the Stork A farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character, and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane. The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.

Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.

The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.

For poets Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.

The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

I have never seen someone unafraid of the future, not worried about the present and someone who doesn't want to go back to the past and correct their mistakes.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.

She/he would a rock pile if she thought there was a snake in it.