He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

Elbert Hubbard

I can not live with out books.

Thomas Jefferson

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Frances Perkins

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Horace

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Christopher Isherwood

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

Robert J. Marks II

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

Robert Frost

But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so.

Leo Tolstoy

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Benjamin Franklin

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

C.S. Lewis