The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men

William Shakespeare

The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Billy Joel

News is the first rough draft of history.

Philip L. Graham

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

Italian Proverb

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

Robert Conklin

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

J.K. Rowling

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Edward Moore

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Johann G. Fichte

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Richard Chevenix Trench