Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon:As yet the early-rising SunHas not attain'd his noon.We have short time to stay, as you,We have as short a Spring;As quick a growth to meet decayAs you, or any thing.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Thomas Campbell

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Guy Lafleur

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

Vera Wang

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

Melina Marchetta

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Francis H. Bradley

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Alva Myrdal

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

Rowan Atkinson