David Teems

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“True criticism is the reflection of the thing criticized upon the spirit of the critic”
― Arthur Hobson Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography

“A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections