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• On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Assail the stern rock
  and the loud tempests rave, The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows, Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave....
• But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boethus say, that all things are produced by fate.
  And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated....
• Thinks't thou existence doth depend on time? It doth
  but actions are our epochs; mine Have made my days and nights imperishable, Endless, and all alike, as sands on the shore, Innumerable atom...
• For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• In the nice bee what sense so subtly true Form pois'ness herbs extract the healing dew?
  -- Alexander Pope...
• Lani's Principles of Economics 1) Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
  2) $100 placed at 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $...
• I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- In the Street, Calai...
• And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
  For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings....
• There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripide