Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Italian Proverb

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Reality is a sliding door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Jane Smiley

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade

Benjamin Franklin

JACKThat is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury.ALGERNONThen your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none.JACKThat, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years.ALGERNONYes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

Oscar Wilde

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Philip Guedalla

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

Henry Ford

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

George Santayana

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

Thomas Frank

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Francis Bowen