Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Envy is a kind of praise.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.

…one world’s poison might be another’s salvation

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

When we meet someone and we fall in love we don’t ever imagine that it’s going to end.