This is very midsummer madness

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

John Stuart Mill

The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.

Ernest Bevin

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Michel de Montaigne, 1580

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

William Wordsworth

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Garrett Hardin

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

Elizabeth Chandler

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The real world is not user-friendly

Kelvin Throop III