My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Alexandra Paul

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Matthew Kelly

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Margaret Halsey

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.

Jodi Picoult

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Harry S. Truman

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Jane Mansfield

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Pope John XXIII

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel