The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.

This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation.

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

When the devil drives, needs must.

Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town, Had earned a living ever. His work was strong and clean and fine, And none who served at Crispin's shrine Was at his trade more clever.

A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.