There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggeration. Climbing wearies. The steepnesses take away one's breath; we slip on the slopes, we are hurt by the sharp points which are its beauty; the foaming torrents betray the precipices, clouds hide the mountain tops; mounting is full of terror, as well as a fall. Hence, there is more dismay than admiration. People have a strange feeling of aversion to anything grand. They see abysses, they do not see sublimity; they see the monster, they do not see the prodigy.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

James Madison

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

Anthony Wayne

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Jimmy Buffett

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Arlen Specter

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Ernest Moritz Arndt

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

Dante Alighieri

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

William Shakespeare

Now, very few are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Robertson Davies

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel