On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is "you?" The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't?

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.