By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.