What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

-Henry David Thoreau

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

-H.R. Haldeman

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

-John Constable

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

-William Carlos Williams

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

-Clement Atlee

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

-Cornelius Tacitus