The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

Herman Melville

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumach

No one disputes that seeming order can out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Robert J. Sawyer

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Gloria Steinem

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Neville Marriner

Speak comfortable words!

William Shakespeare

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

Source Unknown

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Ralph Ellison

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Rosanne Cash

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

William Shakespeare