If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? – Henry David Thoreau
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief. – Paul Ryan
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, thats now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. – Conrad Aiken