It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Helena Rubinstein

We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.

Neil Gaiman

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Bo

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats

Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Anon.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

Alfred A. Montapert

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Elbert Hubbard