Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!

We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.