'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

The strongest proof that in the name of science we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment.

Leo Tolstoy

At the dictation of a mathematician, it will solve in a matter of hours equations never before solved because of their intricacy and the enormous time and personnel which would be required to work them out on ordinary office calculators.

Anon., New York Times, 1944

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old no

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.

William Shakespeare

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Rand Paul

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Mark Twain

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Samuel Johnson

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

Denny McDonough

Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might, the majesty of loveliness?

Lord Byron