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• May the moon light your way, till the wind sets you free.
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
• People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
  -- Wilbur N. Nesbi...
• Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend
  And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend....
• The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore" The queen knew she had seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside.
  He said, "I see you now, and you're so very young But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won And I have this intuition that it's all for your fun And now will you tell me why?...
• Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
• Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles.
  Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger....