"Life is a tragedy wherein we sit..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.”

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

“Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.”

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

“The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.”

“If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”

“There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.”

“Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues”

“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”