Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. – Josiah Gilbert Holland Category: Labor
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. – Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759 Category: Risk
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish Category: Poetry
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld Category: Age
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan Category: Language