A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Lord, so far today I've not been grumpy, selfish, greedy, envious, proud, or angry. I'm really pleased about that. But in a few minutes now, I'm going to get up and from then on, I'll probably need a lot more help.

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

Still waters run no mills.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.