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• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
  William Hazli...
• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
  -- Martha Washingto...
• I'm going to die". (...) "I shall manage. Don't you worry about me," Jack said between clenched teeth.
  Joy shook her head. "I think it can be better than that....
• A woman's life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving
• Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life
  he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbors, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom....
• He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
  -- Klopstock...
• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
  Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was....