America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!. . . Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Too low they build who build below the skies.
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future