A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Confucius

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.

George Eliot

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Julia Roberts

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Robert Frost

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold MacMillan

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

John H. Aughey

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

Jennifer Granholm

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

Rutherford B. Hayes