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.

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.

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.