Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; And they'll opine they feel the pain And blows they felt, to-day, again.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimski; for he driveth furiously.

A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

May all your labors be in vein.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Of course, there's now a higher percentage of seat belt users. The non-users are slowly being killed off.

To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.