“Come into my parlor,” said the spider to the fly.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

Sometimes the surest way to say the wrong thing is to be overly nervous about not saying the wrong thing. -Ken Schenck-

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves … But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom. -William James-

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. -H.L. Mencken-

How far does light travel in dog years?

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. -Alice Moore Hubbard-

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion. -William the Silent-

“As My apprentice you’ll never be fired.” -God-

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. -H.L. Mencken-