He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughtsBenighted walks under the mid-day Sun;Himself is his own dungeon.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Richard Cecil

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Jerry Saltz

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Georg Simmel

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Lee Iacocca

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

A new morality has burst upon us with some violence in connection with the problem of strong drink; and enthusiasts in the matter range from the man who is violently thrown out at 12.30, to the lady who smashes American bars with an axe. In these discussions it is almost always felt that one very wise and moderate position is to say that wine or such stuff should only be drunk as a medicine. With this I should venture to disagree with a peculiar ferocity. The one genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine. And for this reason: If a man drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, he is trying to obtain something exceptional; something he does not expect every hour of the day; something which, unless he is a little insane, he will not try to get every hour of the day. But if a man drinks wine in order to obtain health, he is trying to get something natural; something, that is, that he ought not to be without; something that he may find it difficult to reconcile himself to being without. The man may not be seduced who has seen the ecstasy of being ecstatic; it is more dazzling to catch a glimpse of the ecstasy of being ordinary.

G. K. Chesterton, from

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Thomas Brackett Reed