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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

- Anonymous

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

- Clarence S. Darrow

We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

- James Cardinal Gibbons

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

- Thomas Jefferson

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

- Michel Montaigne

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

- Thomas B. Read