"Man is the only animal that can be bored."

“When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?”

“I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.”

“No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”

“True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.”

Source : Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan

“Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.”

“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.”

“Where passion leads or prudence points the way.”

Source : Robert Lowth, Rev. Peter HALL (1834). “Sermons, and other remains, ... now first collected and arranged, ... with an introductory memoir by ... P. Hall, etc. (P. Barton's sermon at the consecration of Bishop Lowth.).”, p.477

“Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.”