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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.
  The brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection itself- a broader shadow....
• There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face.
  Once and for all and at last. -- Edward Abbey...
• The world is too critical. The world is too cynical.
  We lose our innocence and we lose our very soul....
• Our lives are like a candle in the wind. Carl Sandburg
• Two inches taller than spherical.
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. -- Ovid
• Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we 'll die with harness on our back.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act v, Sc. 5...
• In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...