A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

William Penn

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

Hope Davis

Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake, A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition growing certain and A wait within that certainty, a rest In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake. Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence

Wallace Stevens

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

John Jewel

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

And the tree was happy

Shel Silverstein

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

Jean de la Bruyere

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Leon Blum

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Thomas Carlyle

I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

John Gay

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

James Russell Lowell

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson