James Bartels

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln