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• If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
  -- Albert Schweitze...
• He that has patience may compass anything.
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
  -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- Letter to Cobham...
• Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, / But Genius must be bo
  and can never be taught. -- John Congreve...
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnso
• He who throws mud loses ground.
• O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part i, Line 359...
• He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. iii...