You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. – Leopold Von Ranke
My wish for the new millennium is for all children… to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. – Hillary Clinton
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four. – C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, 1955
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
