We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Wisdom
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. – Maurice Maeterlinck Category: Wisdom
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. – Attributed to Robert Benchley by Evan Esar in 1949, however a similar saying alr Category: Speaking
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – Robert Morgan Category: Poetry
