Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. – Robert Morgan
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. – William Graham Sumner
So Id be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. Id let him use a teleprompter. Ill just rely on knowledge. Well do fine. – Newt Gingrich
