There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. – Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910
I dont want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didnt pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. – Rahm Emanuel
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson
