Wise Words
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”
~John Adams, in a letter to his wife Abigail in 1777 while he was a member of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
“If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”~ Musharish-Ud-Din Sadi
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
~Thomas Jeffreson
“I have been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with harp and sword in my hands.”
~Zora Neale Hurston
