Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

The Man and the Lion A man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented a Lion strangled by a Man. The traveler pointed to it and said: See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts. The Lion replied: This statue was made by one of you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion. One story is good, till another is told.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.

For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.