To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginson,

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others others. . . . Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Woman phones up her husband at work for a chat. HIM: "I'm sorry dear but I'm up to my neck in work today." HER: "But I've got some good news and some bad news for you dear." HIM: "OK darling, but as I've got no time now, just give me the good news." HER: "Well, the air bag works.".

People who think they're out of this world always make you wish they were.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhaps may fight again.

Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety!

It is Hebrew to me.

You cannot have the success without the failures.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. -Bugs Bunny.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.