There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!
Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.
The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer wings flutter to and fro in the dark, sprinkling dusty scaled in the circle of light. I'm struggling to resist, but I'm drawn. And then it's to bright, and I am flying too close to the sun, dazzled by the light, fried and melting from the heat, weary in my endeavers to stay airborn. I am so warm. The heat. . . It's stiffling, overpowering. It wakes me.