Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime. Henry Holt

I do begin to have bloody thoughts. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

I would fain die a dry death. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 1

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 2

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.) Robert Burns, Poem “To a Louse” –...