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• For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Morning Meditatio...
• My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Spring it is cheery...
• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be prese
  I am rising to a man's work." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 1...
• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- On Mr. Justice Story, 1845, p. 300...
• And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Ode to Melancholy...
• Even God's providence Seeming estrang'd. -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh
• Extremes meet, as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth -- Thomas Hood
• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden withi
  here lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man....