The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Stephen Lewis

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Walter Cronkite

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Samuel Alexander

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselvesin their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The firstthat in relation to wrongsembraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.

Abraham Lincoln

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

John Burroughs

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

James Broughton

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Samuel Johnson

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Johann von Goethe

Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire go up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame, the green dispersed, a living red, flame red, red as blood wakes on the ash--

William Carlos Williams, Burning

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her

George Bernard Shaw