The chief source of economic insecurity in America used to be growing old; now it's being born into or raised in a single-parent family.

-Ellwood, David T
  In the Washington Post, 22 Feb.

   It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in. The tribute of the current to the source.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'West-Running Brook'.

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
  Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in itöalthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald,15 Sep.

Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.

-Kemble, Charles
When reluctantly obliged to pay overdue income tax. Attributed.

First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force and beauty must to all impart, At once the source and end and test of art.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.68^73.

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

-Speke,John Hanning
  Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

   Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!

-Sterne, Laurence
  A SentimentalJourney,'The Bourbonnois'.

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

-Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
  What is Art? (translated byV Tchertkoff).