"The squeaking of the pump sounds as..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Politics is but a narrow field.”

“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.”

“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”

“Kim's [Kardashian] just a funny person in general.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

“You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.”

“History is a lie commonly agreed upon.”

“What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.”

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”