"If your past is limited, your future is boundless."
"I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world."
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Source: Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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