This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.