Archive for May, 2009

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

« 29 May 2009 | 21:45 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.



Sir John Harington

« 27 May 2009 | 20:57 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

That we may truly say this spoild the state.
Youthful counsel!, private gaine, partiail hate.



Henry Ward Beecher

« 25 May 2009 | 22:38 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.



Benjamin Peirce

« 23 May 2009 | 22:45 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.



Herman Melville

« 21 May 2009 | 21:24 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.



Edward Thomas

« 19 May 2009 | 7:27 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Cherry Trees
The cherry trees bend over and are shedding,
On the old road where all that passed are dead,
Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding
This early May morn when there is none to wed.