The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make of our country one of the happiest upon earth. Experience during the war proved this; as I think every man will remember that under all the privations it obliged him to submit to during that period he slept sounder, and awaked happier than he can do now. Desperate of finding relief from a free course of justice, I look forward to the abolition of all credit as the only other remedy which can take place.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Elizabeth Jennings

You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?

Carrie Ryan

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Nick Lachey

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Ezra Pound

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

J. G. Ballard

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

Kalashatra Govinda

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Joe Lieberman

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Agatha Christie