Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Parents’ lap and arms become hard and bony in the course of time, but what is there in their touch that cools the heart and soothes mental agony?
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.