Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

W. H. Auden

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Samuel Johnson

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Helen Rowland

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Thomas Troward

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

The things that matteredWere broken and shatteredOne by one

Jonny Lang

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Meister Eckhart

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Nadine Gordimer

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

James Madison

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb