The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the new States of the Union. Well, Sir, suppose it is. We all know that it has more than three times as many mountains, inaccessible and rocky hills, and sandy wastes, as are possessed by any State of the Union. But how much is there of useful land? how much that may be made to contribute to the support of man and of society? These ought to be the questions. Well, with respect to that, I am sure that everybody has become satisfied that, although California may have a very great sea-board, and a large city or two, yet that the agricultural products of the whole surface now are not, and never will be, equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Thomas J. Peters

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can

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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.

Charles Dickens

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There were no last words. His wife was with him to the end.

Les Dawson

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

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John Thorn

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Tom Robbins