At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Buffalo Bill

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Graham Greene

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.

Hitopadesa

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

George Brandes

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Orson Scott Card

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Brad Sherman

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Richard Cobden

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi