Writing

But let us remember in our striving that we are not all born under one star. We must therefore be content with the limits of the talents that God and nature granted us. If we do not do this we shall never be able to live without anxiety. Select your subject according to your talents, you who write; and consider well what your shoulders can bear and what they cannot.

Francesco Petrarca, Rerum familiarium libri

On Politics (and everything)

The sea change happens one wave at a time.

Douglas, Election Night

Incontinence

What hath night to do with sleep?
Night hath better sweets to prove,
Venus now wakes, and wakens Love.
Come let us our rights begin,
'Tis only daylight that makes sin
Which these dun shades will ne'er report.

John Milton, Comus

Virtue and Spirit

If vertue feeble were
Heaven itself would stoope to her.
Coelum, non animum, muto dum trans mare curro.
[My skies I change, not my spirit, as I race across the sea.]

John Milton, Comus