"This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?”

“My heart laments that virtue cannot liveOut of the teeth of emulation.”

“I think thy horse will sooner con an oration thanthou learn a prayer without book.”

“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

“"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.”

“Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people - the 150 or 160 million - is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.'”

“Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.”

“I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.”

“It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.”