It is much safer to obey, than to govern.

The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water . The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.

If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul, for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole. - Edward B. Eastwick,

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?

The great fishpond .

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die.

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.