En perseguirme, Mundo, Que¤   interesas? En que¤   te ofendo, cuando so¤  lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?

-Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la
  Poes|¤  a, teatro y prosa,'Que¤  jase de la suerte' (translated as 'She Complains about Her Fate',1985).

   U.S.A. is the slice of a continent.U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in bya Western Union boy on a black-board, a publiclibrary full of old newspapers and dogeared historybooks with protests scrawled in the margins in pencil.U.S.A. is the world's greatest rivervalley fringed with mountains and hills.U.S.A. is a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bankaccounts.U.S.A. is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery.U.S.A. is the letters at theend of anaddresswhenyouareaway from home.But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people

-Dos Passos,John Roderigo
  U.S. A.,'U.S. A.' (new prologue to collected trilogy).

He was my crowned King, and if the Parliamentary authority of England set the crown upon a stock, I will fight for that stock: And as I fought then for him, I will fight for you, when you are established by the said authority.

-Norfolk
  Explaining before the future Henry VII his reasons for siding with Richard III at Bosworth, 22  Aug. Quoted in William Camden Remains Concerning Britain (1605).

I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
^81  His tribute to the recently deceased actor David Garrick. Lives of the English Poets,'Edmund Smith'.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Getting Married, preface,'The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy'.