So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. – Robert Ingersoll, quoted in Ingersoll the Magnificent
