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• Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It leaves me only fifty more.
  And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow....
• To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
  -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Sensibility...
• We spend the first part of our human experience avidly accumulating things and the other half wondering what in the world we're going to do with all the stuff.
  -- Margret E. Kea...
• Many of us spend half our life wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
  -- Alexander Woollco...
• The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth.
  Children are born with an innate sense of justice...
• Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality
  it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery....
• On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
  or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
  -- Martha Washingto...
• We are far from home. Our ship is the MONDOR. It is broken.
  We look for things. Things that make us go. We need help....