favorite quotes

[billy]

is that a quote or an excerpt

One of my favorite quotes is this from milton:

For Spirits, when they please,
Can either sex assume, or both; so soft
And uncompounded is their essence pure,
Not tried or manacled with joint or limb,
Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones,
Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure,
Can execute their airy purposes,
And works of love or enmity fulfil.

And from the republic:

Which is the more profitable, to
be just and act justly and practise virtue, whether seen or unseen
of gods and men, or to be unjust and act unjustly, if only unpunished
and unreformed?

among many others, i may add to this thread later

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
from Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'success' although the poem is attributed to Emerson, it is believed to have been originally written by Bessie A. Stanley
later than the date of Emerson's death still, the quote and the poem or exceptional.