Rebecca Harding Davis

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.