“Laws, like the spider’s webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.” — Danish Proverb

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” — Madame Marie du Deffand

“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.” — Helen Hunt Jackson

“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.” — Edgar Watson Howe