Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
Reverend Oliver G Wilson
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
- John Keats
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
William Godwin
Time gives good advice.
Maltese Proverb
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
Shakespeare
In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
Francois Arouet
The historian is a prophet in reverse.
Friedrich von Schelling
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!