Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night / Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: / And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught / The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness — / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Cato the Younger·50 BCBear in mind, that if through toil you accomplish a good deed, that toil will quickly pass from you, the good deed will not leave you so long as you live; but if through pleasure you do anything dishonourable, the pleasure will quickly pass away, that dishonourable act will remain with you for ever.
Theodore Roosevelt·1899We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Hippocrates·400 BCLife is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.
