One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
If you prepare for old age, old age comes sooner.
People, by and large, will relate to the image you project.
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker.
Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
'Mr. President, I am praying for you. 'Which way, Senator?'
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
Prayer changes things.
The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.
God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.
Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
