Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

John Ruskin

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Nikolai Gogol

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

Henry Codman Potter

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Friedrich von Schiller

The best counselors are the dead.

Proverb

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Mark Twain

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

George W. Thornbury

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Sir Winston Churchill

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Jack Dempsey

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Nick Hornby

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Alice Sebold